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Word Meanings - PLASTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the nature of plaster. The stone . . . is a poor plastery material. Clough.

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  • 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.
  • MATERIALNESS
    The state of being material.
  • STONE-BLIND
    As blind as a stone; completely blind.
  • STONE
    A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. 5. One of the testes; a testicle. Shak. (more info) sten, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. 1. Concreted earthy or
  • MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
    Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
  • STONEWARE
    A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
  • STONERUNNER
    The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
  • STONECUTTING
    Hewing or dressing stone.
  • STONEWEED
    Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
  • PLASTERLY
    Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
  • NATURED
    Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
  • PLASTERING
    1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • NATURELESS
    Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
  • MATERIALISM
    1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to
  • 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.
  • GRINDLE STONE
    A grindstone.
  • EMPLASTER
    See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
  • 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.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • 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.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • KNOCKSTONE
    A block upon which ore is broken up.
  • PERPENT STONE
    See PERPENDER
  • INKSTONE
    A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.
  • HORNSTONE
    A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

 

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