stone adj : of any of various dull tannish-gray colors n
1. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" [syn: rock]
2. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" [syn: rock]
3. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
4. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone]
5. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" [syn: pit, endocarp]
6. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
7. United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: Oliver Stone]
8. United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn: Lucy Stone}]
9. United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) [syn: I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone]
10. United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946) [syn: Harlan Fiske Stone}] 1
11. United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: Edward Durell Stone}] 1
12. a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" v
13. kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran" [syn: lapidate]
14. remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit]

Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. & OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a pebble. [root]16
1. Cf. Steen.]
2. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy 220 catflap.bishopston.net dictd 1.11.2/rf on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE <128039.41110.1287923137@catflap.bishopston.net>

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