Word Meanings - STONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3. Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like. 2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." Shak. 3. Something made of stone. Specifically: - The glass of a mirror; a mirror. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Shak. A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. Pope.

Related words: (words related to STONE)

• CONCRETIVELY
  In a concrete manner.
• STEENBOK
  See STEINBOCK
• STEINKIRK
  See STEENKIRK
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• CONCRETIONARY
  Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.
• STEINGALE
  The stannel.
• CALCULOUS
  1. Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion. Sir T. Browne. 2. Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• ARISTOTELIANISM
  The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
• CONCRETIVE
  Promoting concretion. Sir T. Browne.
• TESTES
  pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
• CONCRETE
  grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the
• ARISTOCRAT
  1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. 2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning. 3. One who favors
• CONCRETIONAL
  Concretionary.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• STEINBOCK
  The European ibex. A small South African antelope which
• CONCRETELY
  In a concrete manner.
• ARISTOTELIAN
  Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher -- n.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• IMPARISYLLABIC
  Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PARISYLLABIC; PARISYLLABICAL
  Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• GARGARISM
  A gargle.
• CITHARISTIC
  Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
• CESARISM
  See CæSARISM
• CLARISONUS
  Having a clear sound. Ash.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• INCONCRETE
  Not concrete. L. Andrews.
• SEMINARIAN; SEMINARIST
  A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.