STONE

stone

(adjective) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

stone

(noun) 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 site”

stone

(noun) a lack of feeling or expression or movement; “he must have a heart of stone”; “her face was as hard as stone”

rock, stone

(noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; “he threw a rock at me”

Stone, Edward Durell Stone

(noun) United States architect (1902-1978)

Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone

(noun) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)

Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone

(noun) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

Stone, Lucy Stone

(noun) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Stone, Oliver Stone

(noun) United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone

(noun) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

stone, pit, endocarp

(noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; “you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking”

stone

(noun) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; “a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone”

rock, stone

(noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth’s crust; “that mountain is solid rock”; “stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries”

gem, gemstone, stone

(noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; “he had the gem set in a ring for his wife”; “she had jewels made of all the rarest stones”

pit, stone

(verb) remove the pits from; “pit plums and cherries”

stone, lapidate

(verb) kill by throwing stones at; “People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stone)

(countable) An English occupational and habitational surname, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.

(countable) A male given name

A placename

A locale in England, United Kingdom.

A market town in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).

A village in Buckinghamshire.

A village in Gloucestershire.

A village in Kent.

A village in Worcestershire.

A locale in United States.

An unincorporated community in California.

An unincorporated community in Indiana.

An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.

An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

Anagrams

• 'onest, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones

Etymology

Noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or stone) (see usage notes)

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

A small piece of stone, a pebble.

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

(British, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.

(obsolete) A testicle of an animal.

(dated, printing) 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; also called imposing stone.

Usage notes

All countable senses use the plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone.

Synonyms

• (substance): rock

• (small piece of stone): pebble

• (of fruit): pit, pip

• (hard stone-like deposit): calculus

• (curling piece): rock

Verb

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

(transitive) To wall with stones.

(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

(transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)

(intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Synonyms

• (pelt with stones): lapidate

• (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek

• (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out

Adjective

stone (not comparable)

Constructed of stone.

Synonym: stonen

Having the appearance of stone.

Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

(African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.

(LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

Antonym: pillow princess

Adverb

stone (not comparable)

As a stone (used with following adjective).

(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

Anagrams

• 'onest, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones

Source: Wiktionary

Stone, n. Etym: [OE. ston, stan, AS. stan; akin to OS. & OFries. sten, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. Steen.]

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. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.

2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." Shak.

3. Something made of stone. Specifically: - (a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Shak.

(b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. Pope.

4. (Med.)

Definition: A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

5. One of the testes; a testicle. Shak.

6. (Bot.)

Definition: The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]

Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs.

8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. Pope.

9. (Print.)

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.

Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone- still, etc. Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] "Citron tables, or Atlantic stone." Milton.

– Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. Encyc. Brit.

– Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor.

– Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher.

– Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone.

– Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this.

– Stone bass (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; -- called also sea perch.

– Stone biter (Zoöl.), the wolf fish.

– Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. Tylor.

– Stone borer (Zoöl.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.

– Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble (Rubus saxatilis).

– Stone-break. Etym: [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga; saxifrage.

– Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone.

– Stone canal. (Zoöl.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand.

– Stone cat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small fresh- water North American catfishes of the genus Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds.

– Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.

– Stone coral (Zoöl.), any hard calcareous coral.

– Stone crab. (Zoöl.) (a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food. (b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia). Stone crawfish (Zoöl.), a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (A. fluviatilis).

– Stone curlew. (Zoöl.) (a) A large plover found in Europe (Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick- kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee. (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.] -- Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above.

– Stone eater. (Zoöl.) Same as Stone borer, above.

– Stone falcon (Zoöl.), the merlin.

– Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls.

– Stone fly (Zoöl.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larvæ are aquatic.

– Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.

– Stone grig (Zoöl.), the mud lamprey, or pride.

– Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone.

– Stone hawk (Zoöl.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones.

– Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware.

– Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid.

– Stone lugger. (Zoöl.) See Stone roller, below.

– Stone marten (Zoöl.), a European marten (Mustela foina) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also beech marten.

– Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone.

– Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances.

– Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum.

– Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley.

– Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine, and Piñon.

– Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug.

– Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch.

– Stone plover. (Zoöl.) (a) The European stone curlew. (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover (E. recurvirostris). (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.] (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds.

– Stone roller. (Zoöl.) (a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish (Campostoma anomalum); -- called also stone lugger.

– Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand.

– Stone snipe (Zoöl.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.] -- Stone toter. (Zoöl.) (a) See Stone roller (a), above. (b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips.

– To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

Stone, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning.] Etym: [From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st, Goth. stainjan.]

1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59.

2. To make like stone; to harden. O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. Shak.

3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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