Word Finder - stone

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A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

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A small piece of stone, a pebble.

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A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

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(plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms

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The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

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a peach stone

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A hard, stone-like deposit.

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kidney stone

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A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.

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A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

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A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

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A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

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A mirror, or its glass.

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A testicle of an animal.

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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; also called imposing stone.

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To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

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She got stoned to death after they found her.

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To wall with stones.

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To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

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To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

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To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)

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To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

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To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

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Constructed of stone.

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stone walls

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• stonen

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Having the appearance of stone.

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stone pot

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Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

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Used as an intensifier.

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She is one stone fox.

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Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

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stone butch; stone femme

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As a stone (used with following adjective).

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My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

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Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

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I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

It's like someone dropped a stone in the lake.

Dusty shouted as a chunk of stone crushed a stainless steel cabinet.

She rested her cheek against the cool stone wall.

The bedchamber was done up in pastels, soft rose drapes, light blue and green rugs, yellow pillows and highlights, which seemed to take the chill out of the stone walls.

The stone floors were drafty, so she put on slippers and padded into the bright hallway of her wing of the manor.

One stone was "small," another was "very small."

Some of his innate defensive powers remained, or she would've turned him to stone or the Other would've vaporized him.

Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God, he added, and closed his eyes.

The Emperor at once received this messenger in his study at the palace on Stone Island.

Her room was made of black stone and quiet with no sounds except the crackle of fire.

The footsteps of those entering the kitchen were solid against the stone floor.

Dread filled her as she drove up the familiar driveway to the stone manor.

He opened the windows, which did little to shed light into the stone room with its masculine, black décor.

Jilian and a few other vamps were down the hall and turned as the stone wall caved.

The chunky blocks of the stone walls were decorated with art done by children, and colorful mats covered the floor.

Her gaze slid to the stone floor.

While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them.

The stone doors lining each side were all closed.

He emerged in a hallway lined with stone doors.

It was hunched over a book large enough to cover half the black stone desk at which it sat.

Deidre was astonished by the size of the stone stronghold.

The hallway led into an open area with one car in the large parking lot and a medieval stone wall and turrets surrounding the entire hacienda.

He skipped a stone across the pond.

She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow.

The sound of bodies hitting the stone floor behind her preceded Darkyn grabbing her by a few seconds.

Not wanting anyone to interfere with her plan for air, she drew a deep breath and asked the portal system to take her outside the stone fortress.

The scraping of leather against leather, the hollow clatter of stone and shale, the rustle of whatever creature settled behind her.

This stone must be near flawless.

Leaving the dairy, she crossed the field and then the creek, hopping from one stone to another to avoid getting her boots wet.

He tossed another stone.

A notebook lay on the table next to a few scrolls, an ancient manuscript and another block of stone with carvings too faint for Gabe to read.

He was distracted by the feel of both after so long with nothing but stone walls beneath his fingertips.

She pressed the front of her body against the building, dug her fingertips into indents in the stone, and slid her foot along the roughened ledge to the right, stepping slowly and forcing her head up.

Two thrones of stone sat opposite her, awaiting their masters.

Many of the stone obelisks were gone or broken.

A small door in the stone structure opened.

The demon rushed to heal the gouging wound in her leg from the sharp stone she'd landed on.

They went to the edge of the stone roof.

You have the stone?

It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage.

And indeed he only had to lie down, to fall asleep like a stone, and he only had to shake himself, to be ready without a moment's delay for some work, just as children are ready to play directly they awake.

Having learned from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this and always expects the law that he has learned to be fulfilled.

From his shoulders to his chest to his flat midsection, every part of him looked as if he'd been carefully carved from stone.

Far, far, away, beyond the stone and shale, she thought she saw a swatch of green.

The room was more welcoming than she expected, the stone walls covered and smoothed with Sheetrock painted a light green and edged with pumpkin orange.

She crossed the stone tiles to the center of the chamber and circled the plain fountain.

They would have to be made of stone to dislike you.

The feeling of the angel's soft, cold hand in his own reminded Rhyn of the first thing he'd touched in Hell that hadn't been stone.  Gabriel had brought him a book with a worn, leather-like cover, and he'd lost himself dwelling on the sensation of buttery leather under his fingertips after the hazy nightmare that had been his existence in Hell.

She was not bleeding, for which she was grateful, but her body ached as if it had been flung around a stone room for hours.