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Stone
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(2):
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(3):
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(4):
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(5):
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(6):
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(7):
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(8):
(n.) 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.
(9):
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(10):
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(11):
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
(12):
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(13):
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(14):
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(15):
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(16):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/stone.html. 1828.
