SPage 815
- English Word Stone Definition Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
- English Word Stone Definition 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.
- English Word Stone Definition To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
- English Word Stone Definition To make like stone; to harden.
- English Word Stone Definition To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- English Word Stone Definition To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- English Word Stone Definition To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
- English Word Stone-blind Definition As blind as a stone; completely blind.
- English Word Stone-cold Definition Cold as a stone.
- English Word Stone-dead Definition As dead as a stone.
- English Word Stone-deaf Definition As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
- English Word Stone-hearted Definition Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
- English Word Stone-horse Definition Stallion.
- English Word Stone-still Definition As still as a stone.
- English Word Stonebird Definition The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
- English Word Stonebow Definition A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
- English Word Stonebrash Definition A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
- English Word Stonebrearer Definition A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
- English Word Stonebuck Definition See Steinbock.
- English Word Stonechat Definition A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.