Word Meanings - GRAVESTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
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- GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - 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. - GRAVEL
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. - INSCRIPTION
A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. 4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. (more info) 1. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - ERECTILITY
The quality or state of being erectile. - GRAVEN
Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4. - STONE
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. 5. One of the testes; a testicle. Shak. (more info) sten, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. 1. Concreted earthy or - ERECTIVE
Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect. - GRAVEYARD
A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. - GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel . - GRAVES' DISEASE
See DISEASE - GRAVELESS
Without a grave; unburied. - STONEWARE
A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked. - STONERUNNER
The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel. - PRESERVER
1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game. - STONECUTTING
Hewing or dressing stone. - 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, - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - 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, - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - 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