Stone

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A precious stone; a gem.

II. Stone ·noun One of the testes; a testicle.

III. Stone ·noun The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

IV. Stone ·noun To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

V. Stone ·noun A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

VI. Stone ·noun To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

VII. Stone ·noun Something made of stone. Specifically: -.

VIII. Stone ·noun To make like stone; to Harden.

IX. Stone ·noun A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

X. Stone ·noun Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

XI. Stone ·noun To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

XII. Stone ·noun The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. ·see ·Illust. of Endocarp.

XIII. Stone ·noun A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

XIV. Stone ·noun To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

XV. Stone ·noun 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.

XVI. Stone ·noun 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.

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