Definition of stone

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Stone (n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar..

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Hewn :: Hewn (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone..
Stone :: Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
Stoner :: Stoner (n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
Petroglyphy :: Petroglyphy (n.) The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.
Astroite :: Astroite (n.) A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.
Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription..
Perpent Stone :: Perpent stone () See Perpender.
Husk :: Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
Carbonate :: Carbonate (n.) A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc..
Lodestone :: Lodestone (n.) Same as Loadstone.
Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..
Cherry :: Cherry (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone.
Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.
Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..
Bondstone :: Bondstone (n.) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone..
Marmorosis :: Marmorosis (n.) The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble..
Touch-needle :: Touch-needle (n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone..
Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic..
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