Stone

/stəʊ̯n/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
2. (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.
3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
5. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
6. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
7. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
8. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

Example Sentences

Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.

The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.

It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

A railway station which formerly stood a few miles from Sydney has recently been demolished, stone by stone, and has been re-erected as a church in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra, about 200 miles away.

[…]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]

British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.

Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

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• stones
• stone
• styen
• stean
• stoning
• stoned

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