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Key :: Key (n.) A keystone.

#NAME? :: -lite () Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.

Oven :: Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting..

Crowstone :: Crowstone (n.) The top stone of the gable end of a house.

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made..

Stone :: Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Pitter :: Pitter (n.) A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit..

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

Magnet :: Magnet (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet..

Stone :: Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Voussoir :: Voussoir (n.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths..

Wimble :: Wimble (n.) A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.

Greensand :: Greensand (n.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime..

Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

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