meaning of stone
1. 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.
2. A precious stone; a gem.
3. Something made of stone. Specifically: -
4. The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
5. A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
6. A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
7. One of the testes; a testicle.
8. The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
9. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
10. Fig. : Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
11. 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.
12. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
13. To make like stone; to harden.
14. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
15. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
16. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
17. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the
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