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Word Meanings - RUBSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.

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  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • RUBBLEWORK
    Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
  • STONEROOT
    A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
  • RUBBIDGE
    Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • STONE-BLIND
    As blind as a stone; completely blind.
  • RUBBLY
    Relating to, or containing, rubble.
  • SCOURAGE
    Refuse water after scouring.
  • RUBBLE
    A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing
  • 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;
  • WHETSTONE
    A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools. The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. Shak. Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor. South. Note: Some whetstones are
  • STONECUTTING
    Hewing or dressing stone.
  • STONEWEED
    Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
  • RUBBLESTONE
    See 2
  • 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.
  • SCOURSE
    See SCORSE
  • STONEWORK
    Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.
  • 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,
  • 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,
  • DISCOURAGING
    Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
  • 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
  • SCRUBBY
    Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
  • 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.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • KNOCKSTONE
    A block upon which ore is broken up.
  • PERPENT STONE
    See PERPENDER
  • DISCOURSIVE
    1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined

 

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