Word Meanings - STONE-COLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.

Related words: (words related to STONE-COLD)

• 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.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• FLAMELET
  A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
• 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;
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• STONEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• STONE-HORSE
  Stallion. Mortimer.
• STONECROP
  Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine. Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant . (more info) 1. A sort of tree. Mortimer.
• FLAMEN
  A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• STONEWORK
  Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.
• STONECUTTER
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• STONE-COLD
  Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.
• 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.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• 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; aëtites.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• PERPENT STONE
  See PERPENDER
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• DOORSTONE
  The stone forming a threshold.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.