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stone       (stōn)  Pronunciation Key  n.   Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock. Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination: sandstone; soapstone. A piece of rock that is used in construction: a coping stone; a paving stone. A gravestone or tombstone. A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone. A milestone or boundary. A small piece of rock. Rock or a piece of rock shaped or finished for a particular purpose, especially: A piece of rock that is used in construction: a coping stone; a paving stone. A gravestone or tombstone. A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone. A milestone or boundary. A gem or precious stone. Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness. Botany The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach. Pathology A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus. pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms). Printing A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed. adj.   Relating to or made of stone: a stone wall. Made of stoneware or earthenware. Complete; utter: a stone liar. adv.   Completely; utterly: stone cold; standing stone still. tr.v.   stoned, ston·ing, stones To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones. To remove the stones or pits from. To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones. To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen. Obsolete To make hard or indifferent. [Middle English, from Old English stān; see stāi- in Indo-European roots.]

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Stone       (stōn)  Pronunciation Key  American architect who was an exponent of the International Style. Among his notable designs is the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (1964).

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Stone, Harlan Fiske 1872-1946.   American jurist who served as an associate justice (1925-1941) and the chief justice (1941-1946) of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Stone, I   (sidor) American journalist who championed liberal causes in I.F. Stone's Weekly (1953-1971).

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Stone, Lucy 1818-1893.   American feminist and social reformer who organized the first national women's rights convention, held in Worcester, Massachusetts (1850), and was a founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869).

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stone  (n.)

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stone
adjective
1.	of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
noun
1.	a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" [syn: rock]
2.	building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
3.	material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" [syn: rock]
4.	a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem]
5.	an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
6.	the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
7.	United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
8.	United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
9.	United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
10.	United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
11.	United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
12.	United States architect (1902-1978)
13.	a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
verb
1.	kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
2.	remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit]

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stone

In addition to the idioms beginning with stone, also see cast in stone; cast the first stone; flat (stone) broke; heart of stone; leave no stone unturned; rolling stone gathers no moss; run into a stone wall.

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stone       (stōn)  Pronunciation Key  Rock, especially when used in construction. The hard, woody inner layer (the endocarp) of a drupe such as a cherry or peach. Not in scientific use. See calculus.

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stone (stōn)
n.
See calculus.

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STONE
A Structured and Open Environment: a project supported by the German Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) to design, implement and distribute a SEE for research and teaching.

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Stone Harbor, NJ (borough, FIPS 71010) Location: 39.04402 N, 74.76778 W
Population (1990): 1025 (3173 housing units)
Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 08247

Stone Ridge, NY Zip code(s): 12484

Stone Park, IL (village, FIPS 72923) Location: 41.90430 N, 87.88043 W
Population (1990): 4383 (1340 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60165

Stone Creek, OH (village, FIPS 74804) Location: 40.39871 N, 81.55869 W
Population (1990): 181 (72 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 43840

Stone Lake, WI Zip code(s): 54876

Stone Mountain, GA (city, FIPS 73816) Location: 33.80283 N, 84.17167 W
Population (1990): 6494 (2584 housing units)
Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 30083, 30087, 30088

Stone County, AR (county, FIPS 137) Location: 35.86290 N, 92.15350 W
Population (1990): 9775 (4548 housing units)
Area: 1571.2 sq km (land), 7.3 sq km (water)

Stone County, MO (county, FIPS 209) Location: 36.74029 N, 93.46521 W
Population (1990): 19078 (11294 housing units)
Area: 1199.9 sq km (land), 123.5 sq km (water)

Stone County, MS (county, FIPS 131) Location: 30.78900 N, 89.12319 W
Population (1990): 10750 (4148 housing units)
Area: 1153.6 sq km (land), 7.0 sq km (water)

Big Stone City, SD (city, FIPS 5540) Location: 45.29516 N, 96.46437 W
Population (1990): 669 (323 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57216

Big Stone Gap, VA (town, FIPS 7480) Location: 36.86003 N, 82.77792 W
Population (1990): 4748 (1993 housing units)
Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 24219

Big Stone County, MN (county, FIPS 11) Location: 45.42682 N, 96.41312 W
Population (1990): 6285 (3192 housing units)
Area: 1287.2 sq km (land), 80.1 sq km (water)

Stone, ID Zip code(s): 83280

Stone, KY Zip code(s): 41567

White Stone, VA (town, FIPS 85600) Location: 37.64505 N, 76.39157 W
Population (1990): 372 (190 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. & OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a pebble. [root]167. Cf. Steen.]

1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." --Chaucer.

They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3.

Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.

2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." --Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." --Shak.

3. Something made of stone. Specifically: (a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]

Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. --Shak. (b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray.

Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope.

4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak.

6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]

Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs.

8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope.

9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.

Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc.

Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] "Citron tables, or Atlantic stone." --Milton.

Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. --Encyc. Brit.

Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor.

Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher.

Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone.

Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this.

Stone bass (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; -- called also sea perch.

Stone biter (Zo["o]l.), the wolf fish.

Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. --Tylor.

Stone borer (Zo["o]l.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.

Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble (Rubus saxatilis).

Stone-break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga; saxifrage.

Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone.

Stone canal. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand.

Stone cat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds.

Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.

Stone coral (Zo["o]l.), any hard calcareous coral.

Stone crab. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food. (b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia).

Stone crawfish (Zo["o]l.), a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (A. fluviatilis).

Stone curlew. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large plover found in Europe (Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee. (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.]

Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above.

Stone eater. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Stone borer, above.

Stone falcon (Zo["o]l.), the merlin.

Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls.

Stone fly (Zo["o]l.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larv[ae] are aquatic.

Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.

Stone grig (Zo["o]l.), the mud lamprey, or pride.

Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone.

Stone hawk (Zo["o]l.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones.

Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware.

Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid.

Stone lugger. (Zo["o]l.) See Stone roller, below.

Stone marten (Zo["o]l.), a European marten (Mustela foina) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also beech marten.

Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone.

Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances.

Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum.

Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley.

Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine, and Pi[~n]on.

Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug.

Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch.

Stone plover. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The European stone curlew. (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover (E. recurvirostris). (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.] (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds.

Stone roller. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish (Campostoma anomalum); -- called also stone lugger.

Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand.

Stone snipe (Zo["o]l.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.]

Stone toter. (Zo["o]l.) (a) See Stone roller (a), above. (b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips.

To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

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Stone

Stone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning.] [From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st?nan, Goth. stainjan.]

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; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

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Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen. 28:18; Josh. 24:26, 27; 1 Sam. 7:12, etc.). They were gathered out of cultivated fields (Isa. 5:2; comp. 2 Kings 3:19). This word is also used figuratively of believers (1 Pet. 2:4, 5), and of the Messiah (Ps. 118:22; Isa. 28:16; Matt. 21:42; Acts 4:11, etc.). In Dan. 2:45 it refers also to the Messiah. He is there described as "cut out of the mountain." (See ROCK.) A "heart of stone" denotes great insensibility (1 Sam. 25:37). Stones were set up to commemorate remarkable events, as by Jacob at Bethel (Gen. 28:18), at Padan-aram (35:4), and on the occasion of parting with Laban (31:45-47); by Joshua at the place on the banks of the Jordan where the people first "lodged" after crossing the river (Josh. 6:8), and also in "the midst of Jordan," where he erected another set of twelve stones (4:1-9); and by Samuel at "Ebenezer" (1 Sam. 7:12).