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Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing..

Lazuli :: Lazuli (n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone..

Carat :: Carat (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.

Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..

Hoarstone :: Hoarstone (n.) A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark.

Noyau :: Noyau (n.) A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc..

Kabook :: Kabook (n.) A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.

Stock :: Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone..

Moorstone :: Moorstone (n.) A species of English granite, used as a building stone..

Landmark :: Landmark (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved..

Perrie :: Perrie (n.) Precious stones; jewels.

Throw :: Throw (n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw..

Concrete :: Concrete (n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures..

Cheek :: Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc..

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Stonegall :: Stone-deaf (a.) As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.

Daubing :: Daubing (n.) A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

Stannic :: Stannel (n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall..

Sand :: Sand (n.) A single particle of such stone.

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