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stones definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. A precious stone; a gem.
n. Something made of stone. Specifically: -
n. The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
n. A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
n. One of the testes; a testicle.
n. The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
n. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
n. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
n. 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.
n. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
n. To make like stone; to harden.
n. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
n. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
n. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Crossword clues for stones

- 14 pounds
- A rock
- Cherry pip
- Fourteen pounds
- Fruit seed
- Kind of rock
- Pebble
- Rock
- Small lump of rock
- Small rock
- Unit of mass (imp)
- Pieces of a broken rock
- Rocks