meaning of stone

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.
2.
A precious stone; a gem.
3.
Something made of stone. Specifically: -
4.
The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
5.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
6.
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
7.
One of the testes; a testicle.
8.
The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
9.
A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
10.
Fig. : Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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 pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
13.
To make like stone; to harden.
14.
To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
15.
To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
16.
To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
17.
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"


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