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Stone 1Definition: 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.
Stone 2Definition: A precious stone; a gem. Stone 3Definition: Something made of stone. Specifically: Stone 4Definition: The glass of a mirror; a mirror. Stone 5Definition: A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Stone 6Definition: A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. Stone 7Definition: One of the testes; a testicle. Stone 8Definition: The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp. Stone 9Definition: A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. Stone 10Definition: Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. Stone 11Definition: 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. Stone 12Definition: To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. Stone 13Definition: To make like stone; to harden. Stone 14Definition: To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins. Stone 15Definition: To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar. Stone 16Definition: To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone. stone 17Definition: 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 18Definition: a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" stone 19Definition: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" Stone 20Definition: United States architect Stone 21Definition: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice Stone 22Definition: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes Stone 23Definition: United States feminist and suffragist Stone 24Definition: United States filmmaker (born in stone 25Definition: 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 26Definition: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" stone 27Definition: 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" stone 28Definition: 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" stone 29Definition: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" stone 30Definition: kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran" stone 31Definition: of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
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