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Word Meanings - SCOTCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.

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  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • INSTRUMENTAL
    Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
  • STONEROOT
    A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • POINTAL
    The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
  • POINTED
    1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • STONE-BLIND
    As blind as a stone; completely blind.
  • POINT ALPHABET
    An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
  • POINTSMAN
    A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
  • 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
  • POINTLESS
    Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
  • INSTRUMENTALITY
    The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • INSTRUMENTATION
    1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
  • DRESSING
    An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
  • STONEWARE
    A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
  • 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.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • 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.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • 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.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • KNOCKSTONE
    A block upon which ore is broken up.

 

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