Stone

[stəʊn] or [ston]

Definition

(noun.) building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; 'he wanted a special stone to mark the site'.

(noun.) a lack of feeling or expression or movement; 'he must have a heart of stone'; 'her face was as hard as stone'.

(noun.) United States architect (1902-1978).

(noun.) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946).

(noun.) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989).

(noun.) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893).

(noun.) United States filmmaker (born in 1946).

(noun.) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946).

(noun.) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; 'you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking'.

(noun.) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; 'a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone'.

(verb.) kill by throwing stones at; 'People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock'.

(adj.) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors .

Typist: Ruth--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.

(n.) A precious stone; a gem.

(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -

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

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

(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.

(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.

(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

(n.) To make like stone; to harden.

(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

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

(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Edited by Della

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Rock, pebble.[2]. Gem, jewel, precious stone.[3]. Nut (of a drupe).[4]. Vesical calculus.[5]. Testicle.[6]. Monumental tablet.

v. a. [1]. Pelt with stones.[2]. Face with stone, line with stone.[3]. Free from stones.

Editor: Peter

Definition

n. a hard mass of earthy or mineral matter the hard material of which rock consists: a piece of rock of a certain size or form or for a particular purpose as grindstone millstone &c.: a precious stone or gem a crystal mirror: a tombstone: a concretion formed in the bladder: a hard shell containing the seed of some fruits: a standard weight of 14 lb. avoirdupois (other stones occur as that of 24 lb. for wool 22 lb. for hay 16 lb. for cheese &c.): torpor and insensibility.—adj. made of stone or of stoneware.—v.t. to pelt with stones: to free from stones: to wall with stones.—n. Stone′-age the condition of a people using stone as the material for the cutting-tools and weapons which in a higher condition of culture were made of metals.—adj. Stone′-blind as blind as a stone perfectly blind.—ns. Stone′-boil′ing a primitive method of making water boil by putting hot stones in it; Stone′-bow a crossbow for shooting stones: a children's catapult; Stone′-brash a soil made up of finely-broken rock; Stone′-break the meadow-saxifrage; Stone′-break′er one who or that which breaks stones a stone-crushing machine; Stone′-bruise a bruise caused by a stone esp. on the sole of the foot from walking barefooted; Stone′-cast Stone's′-cast Stone′-shot Stone's′-throw the distance which a stone may be thrown by the hand; Stone′chat Stone′chatter Stone′clink one of the most common of the British Turdid smaller than the redbreast—the Wheat-ear is the true stonechat.—n.pl. Stone′-cir′cles or Circles of Standing Stones popularly but erroneously called Druidical Circles in Britain and Cromlechs in France consist of unhewn stones set up at intervals round the circumference of a circular area usually of level ground.—n. Stone′-coal mineral coal as opposed to charcoal: any hard coal anthracite.—adj. Stone′-cold cold as a stone.—n. Stone′-col′our the colour of stone grayish.—adj. Stone′-col′oured.—ns. Stone′-cor′al massive coral as distinguished from branching or tree coral; Stone′crop the wall-pepper Sedum acre; Stone′-curlew a large species of plover; Stone′-cut′ter one whose occupation is to hew stone; Stone′-cut′ting the business of hewing and carving stones for walls monuments &c.—adjs. Stoned containing stones; Stone′-dead lifeless; Stone′-deaf quite deaf.—ns. Stone′-dress′er one who prepares stones for building; Stone′-fal′con a species of hawk or falcon which builds its nest among the rocks; Stone′-fly a genus of insects typical of the order Plecoptera—several species are native to Britain and furnish good lures to anglers; Stone′-fruit a fruit whose seeds are enclosed in a hard kernel; Stone′-ham′mer a hammer for breaking stones.—adjs. Stone′-hard (Shak.) as hard as a stone; Stone′-heart′ed (Shak.) hard-hearted cruel pitiless.—ns. Stone′horse a stallion; Stone′-lil′y the popular name of an Encrinite; Stone′-mā′son a mason who works with stone; Stone′-mill a machine for breaking stone; Stone′-oil rock-oil petroleum; Stone′-pine a Mediterranean nut-pine; Stone′-plov′er the stone-curlew; Stō′ner one who strikes or kills with stones; Stone′-rag -raw a lichen Parmelia saxatilis; Stone′-snipe the greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler a common North American bird.—adj. Stone′-still (Shak.) as still as a stone motionless.—ns. Stone′ware a coarse kind of potter's ware baked hard and glazed; Stone′-work mason-work.—adv. Stō′nily.—n. Stō′niness the state of being stony or abounding with stones: hardness of heart or mind.—adjs. Stō′ny made of or resembling stone: abounding with stones: hard: pitiless: obdurate: (B.) rocky; Stō′ny-heart′ed hard-hearted cruel pitiless.—Leave no stone unturned to do everything that can be done in order to secure the effect desired; Mark with a white stone to mark as particularly fortunate.

Edited by Ahmed

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift, denotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by this, gain one more worthy of her.

To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures. To walk among rocks, or stones, omens that an uneven and rough pathway will be yours for at least a while. To make deals in ore-bearing rock lands, you will be successful in business after many lines have been tried. If you fail to profit by the deal, you will have disappointments. If anxiety is greatly felt in closing the trade, you will succeed in buying or selling something that will prove profitable to you. Small stones or pebbles, implies that little worries and vexations will irritate you. If you throw a stone, you will have cause to admonish a person. If you design to throw a pebble or stone at some belligerent person, it denotes that some evil feared by you will pass because of your untiring attention to right principles. See Rock.

Checker: Olivier

Examples

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