1. stone - Noun
2. stone - Adjective
3. stone - Verb
4. stone - Adverb
5. stone - Adjective Satellite
6. Stone - Proper noun
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 dictionaryThe 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