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As dead as a stone.

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • STONEHATCH
    The ring plover, or dotterel.
  • STONER
    1. One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones. 2. One who walls with stones.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • PERPENT STONE
    See PERPENDER
  • HORNSTONE
    A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
  • INKSTONE
    A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.
  • DOORSTONE
    The stone forming a threshold.
  • PEBBLESTONE
    A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.

 

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