Word Meanings - BONDSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
Related words: (words related to BONDSTONE)
- STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - THROUGHOUT
In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - BINDING POST
A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - BINDING
That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - RUNNINGLY
In a running manner. - BINDING SCREW
A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. - STONEWARE
A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked. - STONERUNNER
The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel. - RUNNING
Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse. - 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. - BINDERY
A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment. - THROUGH
1. From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through. 2. From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through. 3. To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through. Note: Through was formerly used - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - STONE-HORSE
Stallion. Mortimer. - RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - 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, - SUBINDIVIDUAL
A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton. - 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, - 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. - BIND
bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - KNOCKSTONE
A block upon which ore is broken up. - PERPENT STONE
See PERPENDER