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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.

 

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