Word Meanings - COBBLESTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

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• PAVON
  A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• HANDLING
  The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you
• PAVID
  Timid; fearful. Thackeray.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• PAVAGE
  See PAVAGE
• PAVESE; PAVESSE
  Pavise.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PEBBLESTONE
  A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.
• PAVONIAN
  Of or pertaining to a peacock. Southey.
• PAVAN
  A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
• PAVIER
  A paver.
• PAVEMENT
  That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement,
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• IMPAVE
  To pave. Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• 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,
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.