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1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." (Acts vii. 59)

2. To make like stone; to harden. "O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart." (Shak)



5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Origin: From Stone,: cf. AS. Stnan, Goth. Stainjan.

1. 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. "Dumb as a stone." "They had brick for stone, and slime . . . For mortar." (Gen. Xi. 3)


2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." . "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." .

3. Something made of stone. Specifically, the glass of a mirror; a mirror. "Lend me a looking-glass; if that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives." (Shak)

A monument to the dead; a gravestone. "Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie." (Pope)

4. <medicine> A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

5. One of the testes; a testicle.

6. <botany> The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach.



8. Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. "I have not yet forgot myself to stone." (Pope)

9. 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.

Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc. Atlantic stone, ivory. "Citron tables, or Atlantic stone." . Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. Philosopher's stone. See Philosopher. Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone. Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this. Stone bass, any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.

<botany> Stone bramble See Stone roller, above. A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to new York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; called also cutlips. To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

Origin: OE. Ston, stan, AS. Stan; akin to OS. & OFries. Sten, D. Steen, G. Stein, Icel. Steinn, Sw. Sten, Dan. Steen, Goth. Stains, Russ. Stiena a wall, Gr, a pebble. 167. Cf. Steen.

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