stone bock (stonbok)

Same as steenbok. stone-boilers (stōn'boilėrz), n. pl. A tribe or race of men who practise stone-boiling. The Austral i ans, at least in modern times, must be counted as stone -boilers. E. B. Tylor , Early Hist. Mankind, ix. stone-boiling (ston'boiling), n. The act or proce of making water boil by putting hot stones in it. The art of boiling, as commonly known to us, may have been developed through this intermediate proce , which I propose to call stone - boiling . E. B. Tylor , Early Hist. Mankind, ix. stone-borer (stōn'bōr"èr), n. A mollusk that bores stones; a lithodomous, lithophagous, or saxicavous bivalve. See cuts under acce ory , date-shell, Glycymeris , and piddock . stone-bow (ston'bō), n. [ stonbowe ; O, for a stone - bow , to hit him in the eye! Shak ., T. N., ii. 5. 51. Item, six stone bowes that shoot lead pellets. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 363. Children will shortly take him for a wall, And set their stone - bows in his forehead. Beau . and Fl ., King and No King, v. 1. Same as stone-bramble (ston'bram"bl), n. roebuck-berry. stone-brash (ston'brash), n. In agri ., a sub- soil composed of shattered rock or stone. stonebreak (stōn'brāk), п . The meadow-sax i- frage, Saxifraga granulata : so called from the virtue, according to the doctrine of signatures, of its pebble-like bulbs against calculus. The name is also a general equivalent of saxifrage. stone-breaker (stōn'brā kér), n . One who or that which breaks stones; specifically, a ma- IMG:content-2187.png:[graphic][ocr errors][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] stationary jaw: a ', oscillating jaw; b jaw; b, hopper; c, fly-wheel; d short pitman connecting crank-wrist with toggles; e, e, toggles: / frame, strengthened at &, where the thrust of the toggles is received. h, base of machine; 1, rubber spring which withdraws the lower end of the jaw a '. chine for pounding or crushing stone; an oremill; a stone-crusher.