Word Meanings - GORGONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.
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- GORGONIACEA
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce, - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - GORGONZOLA
A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - EFFECT
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed - GORGONEAN
See 1 - GORGONIAN
One of the Gorgoniacea. - EFFECTOR
An effecter. Derham. - STONEWARE
A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked. - STONERUNNER
The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel. - STONE
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. To make like stone; to harden. O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. Shak. 3. To free from stones; - EFFECTUATE
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis. - STONECUTTING
Hewing or dressing stone. - STONEWEED
Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets. - GORGONIA
1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume , and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. 2. Any slender branched gorgonian. - STONE-HORSE
Stallion. Mortimer. - EFFECTION
Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - EYESTONE
Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - GALLSTONE
A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1. - EAGLESTONE
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aƫtites. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - KNOCKSTONE
A block upon which ore is broken up. - PERPENT STONE
See PERPENDER - INKSTONE
A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.