Definition of tone

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Tone (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone..

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Ro-setta Stone :: Ro-setta stone () A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt..
Touch :: Touch (v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone..
Amphopeptone :: Amphopeptone (n.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone..
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.
Perpend Stone :: Perpend stone () See Perpender.
Whiningly :: Whiningly (adv.) In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
Lapideous :: Lapideous (a.) Of the nature of stone.
Chisel :: Chisel (n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer..
Stonecray :: Stone-cold (a.) Cold as a stone.
Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
Saxifragant :: Saxifragant (n.) That which breaks or destroys stones.
Mesocolon :: Mesocolon (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon..
Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid..
Lias :: Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
Croylstone :: Croylstone (n.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small..
Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..
Peptogenous :: Peptogenous (a.) Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone..
Crack :: Crack (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Montoir :: Montoir (n.) A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
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