Stone

ston, re. A ma of concreted earthy or mineral matter; a fragment or small ma of rock; material for building, etc., obtained from rock; a precious stone; gem; a monument erected to preserve memory of the dead. (Med.) A calculous cretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. A testicle; the nut of a drupe or stone fruit; a weight which is legally 14 pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of gla , lbs.] Torpidne and insensibility, —v. t. [stoned (stoud), stoning.] To pelt, beat, or kill with stones; to free from stones; to wall or face with stones. — Stone age. A supposed age of the world, when stone and bone were used as materials for weapons and tools, — called also the flint age; succeeded the bronze age. — Philosopher's s. A pretended stance formerly supposed to have the property turning any other substance into gold. — Rocking A large stone so balanced upon another stone that can be set in motion, or made to oscillate, by a slight force. — To leave no s. unturned. To use all practicable means to effect an object. — Ston'y, -T, a. lating to, made of, abounding in, or resembling, stone; converting into stone; petrifying; inflexible; hard: cruel; obdurate. — Stonlne , n. — Ston'yheart'ed, a. Hard-hearted; cruel; unfeeling. Ston'er. n. One who beats or kills with stones; who walls with stones. — Stone'-coal, n. Hard anthracite coal. — cut'ter, re. One whose occupation is to cut or hew stones. — -fruit, re. Fruit whose seeds are covered with a hard shell enveloped in. the surpulp, as peaches, cherries, plums, etc.; a drupe.— the -mar'ten, n. The common European or beech marfor ten; its fur. See Marten. — -ware, n. A species of potter's ware of a coarse kind, glazed and baked. — -work, re. Mason's work of stone. — Stone's '-cast, -throw, re. The distance which a stone may be thrown by the hand. or Stood. See Stand.