Rock

•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.

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