Word Meaning

Meaning of stone

- 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 precious stone; a gem.
- Something made of stone. Specifically: -
- The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
- A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
- One of the testes; a testicle.
- The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
- A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
- Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
- 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.
- To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
- To make like stone; to harden.
- To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Crossword clue for stone

- 14 pounds
- A rock
- Cherry pip
- Fourteen pounds
- Fruit seed
- Kind of rock
- Pebble
- Rock
- Small lump of rock
- Small rock
- Street one finds small rock in?
- Unit of mass (imp)