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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stone \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.
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              They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for
              mortar.                               --Gen. xi. 3.
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     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.
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     2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." --Chaucer.
        "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." --Shak.
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     3. Something made of stone. Specifically: 
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        (a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
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                  Lend me a looking-glass;
                  If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
                  Why, then she lives.              --Shak.
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        (b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray.
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                  Should some relenting eye
                  Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope.
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     4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the
        kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
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     5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak.
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     6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a
        cherry or peach. See Illust. of {Endocarp}.
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     7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice
        varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
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     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.
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     8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness;
        insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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              I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope.
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     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}.
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     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.
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     {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} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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}. (Zool.) Same as {Sand canal}, under {Sand}.
  
     {Stone cat} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), any hard calcareous coral.
  
     {Stone crab}. (Zool.)
        (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} (Zool.), a European crawfish ({Astacus
        torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of
        the common species ({Astacus fluviatilis}).
  
     {Stone curlew}. (Zool.)
        (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}. (Zool.) Same as {Stone borer}, above.
  
     {Stone falcon} (Zool.), the merlin.
  
     {Stone fern} (Bot.), a European fern ({Asplenium Ceterach})
        which grows on rocks and walls.
  
     {Stone fly} (Zool.), 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 larvae are aquatic.
  
     {Stone fruit} (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a
        drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
  
     {Stone grig} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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}. (Zool.) See {Stone roller}, below.
  
     {Stone marten} (Zool.), 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}. (Zool.)
        (a) The European stone curlew.
        (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the
            genus {Esacus}; as, the large stone plover ({Esacus
            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}. (Zool.)
        (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; as, they live a stone's
        throw from each other.
  
     {Stone snipe} (Zool.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
        [Local, U.S.]
  
     {Stone toter}. (Zool.)
        (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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and
              saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. --Acts vii.
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     2. To make like stone; to harden.
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              O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. --Shak.
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     3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to
        stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
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     4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with
        stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
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     5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stone
       adj : of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
       n 1: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he
            threw a rock at me" [syn: {rock}]
       2: 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}]
       3: 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"
       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}, {gemstone}]
       5: 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" [syn: {pit}, {endocarp}]
       6: 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"
       7: United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: {Oliver Stone}]
       8: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn: {Lucy
          Stone}]
       9: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes
          (1907-1989) [syn: {I. F. Stone}, {Isidor Feinstein Stone}]
       10: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme
           Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946) [syn: {Harlan Fiske
           Stone}]
       11: United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: {Edward Durell
           Stone}]
       12: a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a
           heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
       v 1: kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned
            according to the Koran" [syn: {lapidate}]
       2: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: {pit}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  433 Moby Thesaurus words for "stone":
     Irish confetti, Lydian stone, Tarmac, Tarvia, aa, abyssal rock,
     acorn, adamant, adamantine, adobe, agate, alexandrite, amethyst,
     anklet, anthraconite, aplite, aquamarine, arch, armlet, ashlar,
     asphalt, aventurine, bakestone, bangle, barrow, basalt, basanite,
     beads, bedrock, beetlestone, behead, berry, beryl, bijou,
     bird seed, bitumen, bituminous macadam, black sheep, blacktop,
     blemish, block lava, bloodstone, blow to pieces, blow up, board,
     bola, bolt, bondstone, bone, boomerang, booze up, boozify,
     boundary stone, bowstring, bracelet, brain, brash, brass,
     breastpin, breccia, brick, brickbat, bricks and mortar, brilliant,
     brimstone, bring down, brooch, brownstone, buhr, buhrstone, burn,
     burn to death, bust, cairn, cairngorm, capstone, carbuncle,
     carnelian, cement, cenotaph, chain, chalcedony, chalk, chaplet,
     charm, chatelaine, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, circle, citrine,
     clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, column, concrete,
     conglomerate, copestone, copperplate, coral, cornerstone, coronet,
     countermissile, covering materials, crag, crock, cromlech, cross,
     crown, crucify, crystal, cup, curb, curbing, curbstone, cut down,
     cut to pieces, cyclolith, deal a deathblow, decapitate, decollate,
     defenestrate, demantoid, dendrite, diabase, diadem, diamond,
     disintegrate, dolmen, dolomite, doorstone, dripstone, drop,
     druid stone, duplicate plate, eaglestone, earring, edgestone, egg,
     electrocute, electrotype, emerald, emery rock, execute, face, fell,
     ferroconcrete, festooned pahoehoe, firebrick, flag, flagging,
     flagstone, flaxseed, flint, flintlike, flinty, floatstone,
     flooring, fob, footstone, foreign body, foreign intruder, frag,
     fruit, fuddle, garnet, garrote, gem, gem stone, girasol,
     give the quietus, glass, glaze, gneiss, goldstone, grain, granite,
     granitelike, granitic, grave, gravel, gravestone, grindstone, grit,
     gritrock, gritstone, guillotine, gun down, hairstone,
     harlequin opal, hayseed, headstone, heart of oak, heliotrope,
     hoarstone, hyacinth, igneous rock, impurity, incinerate,
     inflict capital punishment, inscription, intruder, iron, ironstone,
     jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, jewel, jugulate, kerb, kerbstone,
     kernel, keystone, lapidate, lapis lazuli, lath, lath and plaster,
     lava, lay low, limestone, linseed, lithic, living rock,
     locked-up page, locket, lodestone, macadam, magma, mantlerock,
     marble, marblelike, marker, masonry, mausoleum, megalith, memento,
     memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue,
     memorial stone, menhir, metamorphic rock, milestone, milkstone,
     millstone, misfit, missile, monkey wrench, monolith, monument,
     moonstone, morganite, mortar, mote, mound, nails, necklace,
     necrology, nose ring, nut, oak, obelisk, obituary, obsidian,
     oddball, oilstone, onyx, opal, overtake, pahoehoe, paper, pavement,
     pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, pellet, pelt,
     peridot, petrified, petrogenic, phonolite, pickle, pillar,
     pillow lava, pin, pip, pistol, pit, pitchstone, plank, plaque,
     plasma, plaster, plasters, plastic plate, plate, poleax, pollute,
     porphyry, precious stone, prestressed concrete, printing plate,
     printing surface, prize, projectile, pudding stone, pumice,
     put to death, pyramid, quartz, quartzite, regolith, reliquary,
     remembrance, rhinestone, ribbon, riddle, ring, road metal, rock,
     rocket, roofage, roofing, ropy lava, rose quartz, rostral column,
     rottenstone, rubber plate, rubble, rubblestone, rubstone, ruby,
     sandstone, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree,
     sedimentary rock, seed, semiprecious stone, serpentine, shaft,
     shake, shale, sheathe, shelly pahoehoe, shingle, shoot, shoot down,
     shoot to death, shotgun, shrine, siding, silence, slabstone, slate,
     slaty, sliver, snakestone, soapstone, souse, speck, spinel,
     spinel ruby, splinter, stab to death, stalactite, stalagmite,
     starstone, steatite, steel, steel plate, stela, stepping-stone,
     stepstone, stereotype, stew, stickpin, stinkstone, stone to death,
     strangle, strike dead, stupa, swack, tablet, talus, tarmacadam,
     testimonial, thatch, throw stick, throwing-stick, tiara, tile,
     tilestone, tiling, tipsify, tomb, tombstone, topaz, tope, torpedo,
     torque, touchstone, trap, traprock, trophy, tufa, tuff, turquoise,
     typeform, vaporize, veneer, waddy, wall in, wall up, walling,
     wallpaper, wampum, washboard, weatherboard, weed, whetstone,
     whitestone, wristband, wristlet, zincograph, zincotype
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  STONE
       STructured and OpeN Environment (FZI Karlsruhe, Germany)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Stone
     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).
     

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Stone, ID
    Zip code(s): 83280
  Stone, KY
    Zip code(s): 41567

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Stone -- U.S. County in Missouri
     Population (2000):    28658
     Housing Units (2000): 16241
     Land area (2000):     463.224255 sq. miles (1199.745263 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    47.681883 sq. miles (123.495506 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    510.906138 sq. miles (1323.240769 sq. km)
     Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
     Location:             36.714982 N, 93.457028 W
     Headwords:
      Stone
      Stone, MO
      Stone County
      Stone County, MO
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Stone -- U.S. County in Mississippi
     Population (2000):    13622
     Housing Units (2000): 5343
     Land area (2000):     445.365748 sq. miles (1153.491942 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    2.705208 sq. miles (7.006457 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    448.070956 sq. miles (1160.498399 sq. km)
     Located within:       Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
     Location:             30.796000 N, 89.129526 W
     Headwords:
      Stone
      Stone, MS
      Stone County
      Stone County, MS
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Stone -- U.S. County in Arkansas
     Population (2000):    11499
     Housing Units (2000): 5715
     Land area (2000):     606.592101 sq. miles (1571.066263 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    2.835784 sq. miles (7.344646 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    609.427885 sq. miles (1578.410909 sq. km)
     Located within:       Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
     Location:             35.874106 N, 92.169912 W
     Headwords:
      Stone
      Stone, AR
      Stone County
      Stone County, AR
  

















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