STONE

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." Shak.
3. 3. Something made of stone. Specifically: -
4. 4. 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.
5. 5. A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. Pope.
6. 6. A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
7. 7. One of the testes; a testicle. Shak.
8. 8. The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
9. 9. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
10. 10. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. Pope.
11. 11. 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.