Main entry: stone
Definition: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
Usage: he wanted a special stone to mark the site
Main entry: stone
Definition: a lack of feeling or expression or movement
Usage: he must have a heart of stone; her face was as hard as stone
Definition: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
Usage: he threw a rock at me
Main entry: Stone, Edward Durell Stone
Definition: United States architect (1902-1978)
Main entry: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
Definition: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
Main entry: I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone, Stone
Definition: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
Main entry: Stone, Lucy Stone
Definition: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
Main entry: Oliver Stone, Stone
Definition: United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
Main entry: Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone, Harlan Stone
Definition: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
Main entry: endocarp, stone, pit
Definition: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
Usage: you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
Main entry: stone
Definition: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
Usage: a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
Definition: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
Usage: that mountain is solid rock; stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
Main entry: gem, gemstone, stone
Definition: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
Usage: he had the gem set in a ring for his wife; she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
Definition: remove the pits from
Usage: pit plums and cherries
Definition: kill by throwing stones at
Usage: People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
Main entry: stone
Definition: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors