Definition of Stone

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Definition of Stone

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.

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Stone Quotations

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

Stone Translations

stone in Danish is sten
stone in Dutch is klei-, aarden, van klei
stone in Finnish is kivi
stone in French is pierre
stone in German is Stein, steinigst, Stein
stone in Italian is sasso, pierra
stone in Latin is calculus
stone in Norwegian is stein, stein
stone in Portuguese is pedra
stone in Spanish is piedra, empinado

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