lapidary wheel

The wheel on which a lapidary polishes gems or precious stones. The wheels of the lapidary are of two kinds: the slicer, which is a thin iron wheel touched with diamond dust, and used like a circular saw, and the lap. [LAP (1) 8., II. 3.] *lăp'-1-dāte, v . t . [Lat. lapidatus , pa. par. of lapido = to stone; lapis (gen it. lapidis ) = a stone.] To stone; to kill by stoning. *lăp-i-dā-tion, s. [Lat. lapidatio , from lap i dat us , pa. par. of lapido .] The act of stoning; the act of killing by stoning. *lăp-i-da-tor, s. [Lat.] One who stones. la-pid-ě-on, s. [Lat. lapis (gen it. lapidis )=a stone.] Music: An instrument contrived by M. Baudry, made of flints and schist suspended from an iron frame and struck with a flint hammer to produce the notes. The flints are about forty in number and elongated, but of various lengths and thickne es. They are arranged in the order of their tone. *la-pid-ě-oŭs, a. [Lat. lapideus , from lapis (gen it. lapidis )=a stone.] Consisting of stone; of the nature of stone; stony. †lăp-i-děş-çençe, *lăp-1-děs-çen-çỹ, s . [Eng. lapidescen (t); -ce,-cy.] 1. The quality or state of being lapidescent; the proce or state of becoming stone; petrifaction. 2. A stony concretion.