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stone

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1. stone - Noun

2. stone - Adjective

3. stone - Verb

4. stone - Adverb

5. stone - Adjective Satellite

6. Stone - Proper noun

Meaning

A precious stone; a gem.

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.

Something made of stone. Specifically: -

The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

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

One of the testes; a testicle.

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

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

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

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.

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

To make like stone; to harden.

To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

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

To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud

A rolling stone can gather no moss. Publilius Syrus

The sins of the entire world get drowned in the sea of God's love like a stone thrown into water. So there can't be any space for despondency, hopelessness and despair. Nikon (Vorobiev)

One idiot threw a stone in the well, thousand wise people could not get it out. Armenian Proverb

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. Korean Proverb

Water hollows out the stone not by force, but by persistence. Japanese Proverb

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