Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 164
Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. -- Gray.
Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. -- Pope.
Stone (n.) (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or
bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
Stone (n.)
One of the testes; a testicle. -- Shak.
Stone (n.) (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
Stone (n.) 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.
Stone (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
I have not yet forgot myself to stone. -- Pope.
Stone (n.) (Print.) 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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. [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. (Zool.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand.
Stone cat (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), Any hard calcareous coral.
Stone crab. (Zool.) (a) A large crab ({Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food.
Stone crab. (Zool.) (b) A European spider crab ({Lithodes maia).
Stone crawfish (Zool.), A European crawfish ({Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species ({Astacus fluviatilis).
Stone curlew. (Zool.) (a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also
thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.
Stone curlew. (Zool.) (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
Stone curlew. (Zool.) (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.]
Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above.
Stone eater. (Zool.) Same as Stone borer, above.
Stone falcon (Zool.), The merlin.
Stone+fern+(Bot.),+A+European+fern+({Asplenium+Ceterach">Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern ({Asplenium Ceterach)
which grows on rocks and walls.
Stone fly (Zool.), 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 (Bot.), Any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
Stone grig (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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. (Zool.) See Stone roller, below.
Stone+marten+(Zool.),+A+European+marten+({Mustela+foina">Stone marten (Zool.), 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 Pi[~n]on.
Stone pit, A quarry where stones are dug.
Stone pitch, Hard, inspissated pitch.
Stone plover. (Zool.) (a) The European stone curlew.
Stone plover. (Zool.) (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover ({Esacus recurvirostris).
Stone plover. (Zool.) (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]
Stone plover. (Zool.) (d) The ringed plover.
Stone plover. (Zool.) (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds.
Stone roller. (Zool.) (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.
Stone roller. (Zool.) (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; as, they live a stone's throw from each other.
Stone snipe (Zool.), The greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.]
Stone toter. (Zool.) (a) See Stone roller
Stone toter. (Zool.) (a), above.
Stone toter. (Zool.) (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.
Stoned (imp. & p. p.) of Stone.
Stoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stone.
Stone (v. t.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. -- Acts vii. 59.
Stone (v. t.) To make like stone; to harden.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. -- Shak.
Stone (v. t.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
Stone (v. t.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
Stone (v. t.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Stone (a.) Of any of various dull tannish or grey colors.
Stone (n.) A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" [syn: rock, stone].
Stone (n.) 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 (n.) 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" [syn: rock, stone].
Stone (n.) 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" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone].
Stone (n.) 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."
Stone (n.) 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" [syn: stone, pit, endocarp].
Stone (n.) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone].
Stone (n.) United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: Stone, Oliver Stone].
Stone (n.) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn: Stone, Lucy Stone].
Stone (n.) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) [syn: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone].
Stone (n.) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone].
Stone (n.) United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: Stone, Edward Durell Stone].
Stone (n.) A lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone."
Stone (v.) Kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone, lapidate].
Stone (v.) Remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit, stone].
Stonebird (n.) The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
Stone-blind (a.) As blind as a stone; completely blind.
Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Stonebrash (n.) A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Stonebuck (n.) See Steinbock.
Stonechat (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.
Stonechat (n.) The blue titmouse.
Stone-cold (a.) Cold as a stone.
Stonecray (n.) A distemper in hawks.
Stonecrop (n.) A sort of tree.
Stonecrop (n.) Any low succulent
plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in
Europe, and is spreading in parts of
Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
Stonecutting (n.) Hewing or dressing stone.
Stone-dead (a.) As dead as a stone.
Stone-deaf (a.) As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
Stonegall (n.) See Stannel.
Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel.
Stone-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
Stonehenge (n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Stone-horse (n.) Stallion.
Stoner (n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
Stoner (n.) One who walls with stones.
Stoneroot (n.) A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.
Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.
Stonesmickle (n.) The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
Stone-still (a.) As still as a stone.
Stoneware (n.) A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
Stoneweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
Stonework (n.) Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
Stonewort (n.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
Stonily (adv.) In a stony manner.
Stoniness (n.) The quality or state of being stony.
Stonish (a.) Stony.
Stont () 3d pers. sing. present of Stand.
Stony (a.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
Stony (a.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
The stony dart of senseless cold. -- Spenser.
Stony (a.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Stony coral. (Zool.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.
Stony (a.) Abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony].
Stony (a.) Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony].
Stony (a.) Hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony].
Stood () imp. & p. p. of Stand.
Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
Stooked (imp. & p. p.) of Stook.
Stooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stook.
Stook (v. t.) (Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Stool (n.) (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. -- P. Henderson.
Stool (v. i.) (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
Stool (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
Stool (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]
Stool (n.) (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. -- Totten.
Stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. -- J. P. Peters.
Stool (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
Stool (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]
Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), The flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.
Stool of repentance, The cuttystool. [Scot.]
Stool pigeon, A pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.
Stool (n.) A simple seat without a back or arms.
Stool (n.) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection].
Stool (n.) (Forestry) The stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings.
Stool (n.) A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne].
Stool (v.) Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl.
Stool (v.) React to a decoy, of wildfowl.
Stool (v.) Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: stool, tiller].
Stool (v.) Have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make].
Stoolball (n.) A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. -- Chapman.
Stoom (v. t.) To stum. [R.]
Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
Stoop (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Stoop (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoop.
Stooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoop.
Stoop (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . .
Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. -- Dryden.
These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome Addison.
Stoop (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. "She stoops to conquer." -- Goldsmith.
Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. -- Bacon.
Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. -- Milton.
Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
And stoop with closing pinions from above. -- Dryden.
Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing. -- Milton.
Syn: To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower; shrink.
Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. "Have stooped my neck." -- Shak.
Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate. [Obs.]
Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive. -- Chapman.
Stoop (v. t.) To degrade. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Stoop (n.) An inclination of the top half of the body forward and Downward.
Stoop (n.) Basin for holy water [syn: stoup, stoop].
Stoop (n.) Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house [syn: stoop, stoep].
Stoop (v.) Bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: crouch, stoop, bend, bow].
Stoop (v.) Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's. mail" [syn: condescend, stoop, lower oneself]
Stoop (v.) Descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field".
Stoop (v.) Sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path".
Stoop (v.) Carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane".