stomechinus

[Gr. stoma =a mouth, and Palæont.: A group of Star-fishes, family Echinin the Jurase.. Mod. Lat. echinus (q. v.).] idæ, occurring in stō-mi-ăs, s . [Gr.stomias=hard-mouthed.] Ichthy.: The type-genus of Stomia tide (q. v.), with three species. Body elongate, compre ed, IMG:content-0345.png:[blocks in formation] (4) Something made of stone; as (a) A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead; a gravestone. "Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die." Ben Jonson: Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth . * (b) A gun-flint, (5) Something which resembles a stone; as( a ) A calcareous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; hence, the disease arising from a calculus. [CALCULUS, 2.] "Past earthquakes-ay, and gout and stor " Tennyson Lucretius, 153. (b) The drupe stone fruit; the hard covering enclosing the kernel, and itself enclosed by the pericarp; the hard and bony endocarp of a drupaceous fruit. "Cracking the stones of the prunes." (c) A testicle. Shakesp .: Measure for Measure , ii. 1. In composition used by the old herbalists for an orchis, as dog-stones=dog-orchis ( Orchis mas cula ). (d) The gla of a mirror; a mirror. "Lend me a looking-gla ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , Why then she lives." Shakesp.: Lear , v. 8. * (6) A hailstone. * (7) A thunderbolt. "The gods throw stones of sulphur on me." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 5. (8) A measure of weight in use throughout the northwest and central countries of Europe, but varying much in different places. The English imperial standard stone is a weight of 14 lbs. avoirdupois, but there are stones of other weights for particular commodities; thus the stone of butcher's meat or fish is 8 lbs., of cheese 16 lbs., of hemp 32 lbs., of gla 5 lbs., . 2. Fig .: Used as the symbol of hardne , torpidity, or insensibility; as, He has a heart of stone . II. Technically : 1. Petrol., Geol., Arch ., .: Stone is not used as a technical term in either Petrology or Geology, though it enters into the composition of words in those sciences, as Portland- stone . By masons, builders, ., it is continually used, and is specially contrasted with brick as material for the construction of edifices. "That portion of it," says Weale, "which is used for building purposes is a dense, coherent, brittle substance, sometimes of a granulated, at others of a laminated structure, these qualities varying according to its chemical constitution and the mode in which it has been deposited." The qualities which render a building stone valuable are strength to resist superincumbent pre ure, durability, and a capability of being easily wrought. The chief building stones in use are granites of various colors, elvans, syenites, por marbles, the mountain limestone, and others. The art of working in stone is of great antiquity, the Egyptians being especially celebrated for their granite edifices, obelisks, sculptures, . IMG:content-0346.png:[blocks in formation] Ichthy.: A family of Physostomi v.); deep-sea fishes from the Atlantic, characterized chiefly by their formidable array of teeth. Skin naked, or covered with very delicate scales; eggs enclosed in the sacs of the ovarium, and excluded by oviducts. for many purposes, as making building blocks, Dr. Günther enumerates the following genera: A str on est hes, with two dorsals, the posterior adipose; Stomias, Echiostoma, Mala coste us, and Bathyophis, in which the rayed dorsal is opposite to the anal fin. stom-ox-ys, s. [Gr. stoma =amouth, and oxys sharp.] Entom.: A genus of Muscide. Stomoxys calci mouth. B. As adjective : Of or pertaining to a stoma or stomata.