·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.