Definitions for "Stone"
Keywords:  drupe, endocarp, plums, woody, peach
The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
woody endocarp ( q.v.) of a drupe ( q.v.)
A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
14 lbs. (primarily used for people's weight)
a traditional British unit of weight, rarely used in the U.S. Originally the stone varied in size, both from place to place and according to the nature of the item being weighed. A stone of sugar was traditionally 8 pounds, while a stone of wool could be as much as 24 pounds. Eventually the stone was standardized at 14 pounds avoirdupois or approximately 6.350 29 kilograms -- a convenient size because it makes the stone equal to exactly 1/2 quarter or 1/8 hundredweight. Today the stone is used mostly for stating the weight of persons or animals. No -s is added for the plural.
Bavarian limestone is used in the medium of lithography. This is the element that the artist draws on to create the print image.
a sculpture because an artist used a chisel to shape it
a sculpture because a sculptor made it into one
Keywords:  quarried, fragment, rock, ahdos, pebble
Small piece of rock; may or may not refer to ornamental material.
Sometimes synonymous with rock, but more properly applied to individual blocks, masses, or fragments taken from their original formation or considered for commercial use.
Rock fragments larger than 25.4 cm (10 inches) but less than 60.4 cm (24 inches).
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.
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
mineral deposit that forms in the kidney or ureter over time.
Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
a glorious pop tune that persuaded me to buy the album
Stone was a thrash metal band formed in Helsinki, Finland in the mid-1980s. They released four albums during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disbanding 1991 to pursue different musical directions. Stone reunited to play a final set of concerts in year 2000, but parted ways again soon afterwards.
The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
a mirror which works poorly
Small impurities in glass, such as a particle of furnace material.
Keywords:  gem, morello, precious, guitarist, tom
A precious stone; a gem.
a gem) and Tom Morello is still the best guitarist alive (for me)
Coloured stone, a precious gemstone, except diamond; Ornamental stone, a stone used for making ornamental objects. It may also be used for fancy coloured jewellery; Precious stone (there are only four): diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire. All the others are semi-precious stones; Rough stone, a stone in its natural state before cutting: semi -precious stone, any natural gemstone, apart from the four precious stone: Synthetic stone, man-made stones having the same physical properties as the natural stone. They can be distinguished by the types of inclusions they contain.
a former Apple and Microsoft executive
Stone was the favoured pupil of Stick, the blind former mentor of costumed crime-fighter Daredevil and Elektra Natchios. He is a member of the Chaste and is a highly trained martial artist and assissts his sensei against the Hand. Like the other members of the Chaste, Stone is deeply advanced in the art of chi-manipulation.
Element of reflection; physical substance. Archetypes: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Stone complements Air. In this glossary the name Stone for this element replaces the more common Earth. The most mundane reason for this is that the term Earth is overloaded with meanings, all of which ring of greater complexity than what most people associate with the word Stone.
Keywords:  pelt, koran, adulterers, kill, throwing
To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
Stone is a 1974 Australian film, produced and directed by Sandy Harbutt. It was a low budget movie, written by Sandy Harbutt and Michael Robinson.
Keywords:  ballad, wrenching, gut, paul, piano
a soft piano ballad with a gut wrenching vocal from Paul
Keywords:  gravestone, monument, dead
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
an organism enshrining a divine spark or monad
Keywords:  hone, grit, coarse, dry
A coarse grit hone that is used dry.
Keywords:  prongs, pod
a pod and its prongs
a wonderful novel for the reader who enjoys a credible medieval world
an unbroken crystal of regular formation
A term used to describe a quartz crystal before any machining operations have been done. The synthetic single crystals grown in the Hydrothermal Process are referred to as a "Stone".
Keywords:  tannish, dull, gray, colors
of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
Keywords:  cellar, fortify, wall, well, face
To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
Keywords:  sappy, gripping, formulaic, bit, it
a bit formulaic and sappy but it's also quite gripping
(7 or 8 or 9 or 10) – A very solid pocket hit resulting in a leave of one of the 7, 8, 9 or 10 pin.
a solid homogeneous crystalline chemical element or compound that results from the inorganic processes of nature
Keywords:  miracle, clip, cloud, paper
a miracle and a cloud is a miracle and a paper clip is a miracle
Keywords:  splashes, grey, lighter, dark, colour
a dark grey base colour with splashes of lighter grey tones
a physical object and a metaphysical representative
Keywords:  forever, promotional, lasts, item
a promotional item that lasts forever
Keywords:  song, pretty
a really pretty song
A plaster-like substance, the grains of which are much less porous than those of plaster.
Keywords:  harden
To make like stone; to harden.
Keywords:  checker, way, another, call
Another way to call a checker.
Something made of stone. Specifically: -
an individual by reason of something positive, intrinsic within itself
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.
Keywords:  british, measurement
a British measurement
Keywords:  marker, turn, player, his, colored
the colored marker which a player places at his turn.
Keywords:  testicle, testes, one
One of the testes; a testicle.
Keywords:  law, object, material
a material object, but a law is not
Keywords:  natural, see
See Natural Stone.