Word Meanings - METEOROLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A meteoric stone; an aërolite; a meteorite.

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• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• METEORICAL
  Meteoric.
• 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.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• 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.
• 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.
• METEORITE
  A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aërolite. Note: Meteorites usually show a pitted surface with a fused crust, caused by the heat developed in their rapid passage through the earth's atmosphere. A meteorite may
• 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.
• STONE-DEAD
  As dead as a stone.
• STONEBIRD
  The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
• STONEHENGE
  An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
• STONECHAT
  similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two A small, active, and very common European singing bird ; -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. The wheatear. The blue titmouse. Note: The name
• 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,
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• COPROLITE
  A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
• 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; aëtites.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• PERPENT STONE
  See PERPENDER
• SYDEROLITE
  A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.