Word Meanings - MERESTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.
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- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - LIMITARY
1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - 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 - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - LIMITANEOUS
Of or pertaining to a limit. - STONEWARE
A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked. - LIMITATE
Bounded by a distinct line. - STONERUNNER
The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel. - STONECUTTING
Hewing or dressing stone. - STONEWEED
Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets. - 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. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - 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.