Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Stone (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
Stone (n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
Stone (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
Stone (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
Stone (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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.
Stoned (imp. & p. p.) of Stone
Stoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stone
Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
Stone (n.) To make like stone; to harden.
Stone (n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
Stone (n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
Stone (n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Stonebird (n.) The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
Stone-blind (a.) As blind as a stone; completely blind.
Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Stonebrash (n.) A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Stonebuck (n.) See Steinbock.
Stonechat (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.
Stonechat (n.) The blue titmouse.
Stone-cold (a.) Cold as a stone.
Stonecray (n.) A distemper in hawks.
Stonecrop (n.) A sort of tree.
Stonecrop (n.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine.
Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
Stonecutting (n.) Hewing or dressing stone.
Stone-dead (a.) As dead as a stone.
Stone-deaf (a.) As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
Stonegall (n.) See Stannel.
Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel.
Stone-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
Stonehenge (n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Stone-horse (n.) Stallion.
Stoner (n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
Stoner (n.) One who walls with stones.
Stoneroot (n.) A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.
Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.
Stonesmickle (n.) The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
Stone-still (a.) As still as a stone.
Stoneware (n.) A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
Stoneweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
Stonework (n.) Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
Stonewort (n.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
Stonily (adv.) In a stony manner.
Stoniness (n.) The quality or state of being stony.
Stonish (a.) Stony.
Stont () 3d pers. sing. present of Stand.
Stony (superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
Stony (superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Stood () imp. & p. p. of Stand.
Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
Stooked (imp. & p. p.) of Stook
Stooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stook
Stook (v. t.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
Stool (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
Stool (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
Stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
Stool (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
Stool (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
Stoolball (n.) A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
Stoom (v. t.) To stum.
Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
Stoop (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Stoop (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoop
Stooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoop
Stoop (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Stoop (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Stoop (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Stoop (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Stooper (n.) One who stoops.
Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Stoor (v. i.) To rise in clouds, as dust.
Stoor (a.) Alt. of Stor
Stor (a.) Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.
Stopped (imp. & p. p.) of Stop
Stopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop
Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Stop (v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.