Word Definition

Stone

  1. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
  2. To make like stone; to harden.
  3. A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
  4. A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
  5. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
  6. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
  7. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
  8. 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.
  9. The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
  10. The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
  11. 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.
  12. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
  13. One of the testes; a testicle.
  14. A precious stone; a gem.
  15. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
  16. Something made of stone. Specifically: -

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