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Entry 16 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Stone

/stōn/ · IPA /stoʊ̯n/
01 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 ar…
  1. 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.
    “They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.” — Gen. xi. 3.
  2. 2.
    A precious stone; a gem.
  3. 3.
    Something made of stone. Specifically: -
  4. 4.
    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.
  5. 5.
    A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
    “Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie.” — Pope.
  6. 6.
    A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.(Med.)
  7. 7.
    One of the testes; a testicle.
  8. 8.
    The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.(Bot.) See: Endocarp
  9. 9.
    A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.[Eng.]
  10. 10.
    Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
    “I have not yet forgot myself to stone.” — Pope.
  11. 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.(Print.) Also: imposing stone
Phrases & compounds
Atlantic stone — ivory.
Bowing stone — Same as Cromlech.
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 — 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 — the wolf fish.
Stone boiling — a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages.
Stone borer — any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.
Stone bramble — a European trailing species of bramble (Rubus saxatilis).
Stone-break — 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 — Same as Sand canal, under Sand.
Stone cat — 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 — any hard calcareous coral.
Stone crab — A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food.
Stone crawfish — a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (Astacus fluviatilis).
Stone curlew — A large plover found in Europe (Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.
Stone crush — Same as Stone bruise, above.
Stone eater — Same as Stone borer, above.
Stone falcon — the merlin.
Stone fern — a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls.
Stone fly — 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 larvae are aquatic.
Stone fruit — any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
Stone grig — 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 — the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones.
Stone jar — a jar made of stoneware.
Stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
Stone lugger — See Stone roller, below.
Stone marten — 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 — 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 — an umbelliferous plant (Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley.
Stone pine — 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 — The European stone curlew
Stone roller — 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.
Stone's cast — the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's throw from each other.
Stone snipe — the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
Stone toter — See Stone roller (a), above
To leave no stone unturned — to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
02 v. t. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning
  1. 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. 2.
    To make like stone; to harden.
    “O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.” — Shak.
  3. 3.
    To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
  4. 4.
    To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
  5. 5.
    To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.