1. the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
2. a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate.
3. a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: paving stone;building stone.
4. a small piece of rock, as a pebble.
5. precious stone.
6. one of various units of weight, especially the British unit equivalent to 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).
7. something resembling a small piece of rock in size, shape, or hardness.
8. any small, hard seed, as of a date; pit.
9. the hard endocarp of a drupe, as of a peach.
10. a calculous concretion in the body, as in the kidney, gallbladder, or urinary bladder.
11. a gravestone or tombstone.
12. grindstone: Don’t even think about using that stone until you’ve got your safety glasses on.
13. millstone: The gristmill’s original pair of stones were made from volcanic lava deposits in southern Italy.
14. hailstone: With many verified reports of stones as large as 6 inches in diameter, we can tell you this was no ordinary hailstorm.
15. curling stone: Friction between the stone and the surface of the ice is controlled by many parameters, including velocity.
16. any of various artificial materials imitating cut stone or rubble.
17. a table with a smooth surface, formerly made of stone, on which page forms are composed.
18. (in lithography) any surface on which an artist draws or etches a picture or design from which a lithograph is made.
19. a playing piece in the game of dominoes, checkers, or backgammon.
20. testes.

21. made of or pertaining to stone.
22. made of stoneware: a stone mug or bottle.
23. stonelike; stony; obdurate: a stone killer;stone strength.

24. completely; totally (usually used in combination): stone cold.

25. to throw stones at; drive by pelting with stones.
26. to put to death by pelting with stones.
27. to provide, fit, pave, line, face or fortify with stones.
28. to rub (something) with or on a stone, as to sharpen, polish, or smooth.
29. to remove stones from, as fruit.
30. to make insensitive or unfeeling.

31. to be the first to condemn or blame a wrongdoer; be hasty in one's judgment: What right has she to cast the first stone?
32. to exhaust every possibility in attempting to achieve one's goal; spare no effort: We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to find the culprit.
33. to put (something) in final form; finalize so as to prevent change or reversal:These schematics for the library renovation are only proposals—nothing yet is set in stone.

1. U.S. architect.
2. U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1941–46.
3. U.S. author.
4. U.S. political journalist.
5. U.S. suffragist (wife of Henry Brown Blackwell).

1. the hard compact nonmetallic material of which rocks are made
2. a small lump of rock; pebble
3. jewellery short for gemstone
• a piece of rock designed or shaped for some particular purpose
• (in combination)
• something that resembles a stone
• (in combination)
6. the woody central part of such fruits as the peach and plum, that contains the seed; endocarp
7. any similar hard part of a fruit, such as the stony seed of a date
8. a unit of weight, used esp to express human body weight, equal to 14 pounds or 6.350 kilograms
9. the rounded heavy mass of granite or iron used in the game of curling
10. pathol a nontechnical name for calculus
11. a table with a very flat iron or stone surface upon which hot-metal pages are composed into formes; imposition table
12. (in certain games) a piece or man
• any of various dull grey colours
• (as adjective)
14. relating to or made of stone
15. made of stoneware
16. cast aspersions upon
17. an obdurate or unemotional nature
18. to do everything possible to achieve an end

19. completely

20. to throw stones at, esp to kill
21. to remove the stones from
22. to furnish or provide with stones
23. an expression of surprise, dismay, etc

1. Oliver. born 1946, US film director and screenwriter: his films include Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), Alexander (2004), and World Trade Center (2006)
2. Sharon. born 1958, US film actress: her films include Basic Instinct (1991), Casino (1995), and Cold Creek Manor (2003)

1. very; completely

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