| • | 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. |
| • | A precious stone; a gem. |
| • | 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. |
