Definition of stone:

• Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events ( Genesis 28:18 ; Joshua 24:26 Joshua 24:27 ; 1 Samuel 7:12 , etc.). They were gathered out of cultivated fields ( Isaiah 5:2 ; Compare 2 Kings 3:19 ). This word is also used figuratively of believers ( 1 Peter 2:4 1 Peter 2:5 ), and of the Messiah ( Psalms 118:22 ; Isaiah 28:16 ; Matthew 21:42 ; Acts 4:11 , etc.). In Daniel 2:45 it refers also to the Messiah. He is there described as " cut out of the mountain." ( See ROCK .) A " heart of stone" denotes great insensibility ( 1 Samuel 25:37 ). Stones were set up to commemorate remarkable events, as by Jacob at Bethel ( Genesis 28:18 ), at Padan-aram ( 35:4 ), and on the occasion of parting with Laban ( 31:45-47 ); by Joshua at the place on the banks of the Jordan where the people first " lodged" after crossing the river ( Joshua 6:8 ), and also in " the midst of Jordan," where he erected another set of twelve stones ( 4:1-9 ); and by Samuel at " Ebenezer" ( 1 Samuel 7:12 ).
• To pelt or kill by hurling pieces of rock at; remove the stones, or pits, from; as, to stone cherries.
• To pelt with stones: to free from stones: to wall with stones.
• To pelt or kill with stones; free from stones.
• To hurl stones at.
• To remove the stones or pits from.
• To furnish, as a well, with stone.
• To pelt or kill with stones; to free from stones; to wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones. To leave no stone unturned, to spare no exertions.
• To pelt or kill with stones; to free from stones, as fruit; to face with stones.
• United States architect ( 1902- 1978)
• 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"
• 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"
• United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice ( 1872- 1946)
• United States journalist who advocated liberal causes ( 1907- 1989)
• United States feminist and suffragist ( 1818- 1893)
• United States filmmaker ( born in 1946)
• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; " he threw a rock at me"
• 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"
• 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"
• a lack of feeling or expression or movement; " he must have a heart of stone"; " her face was as hard as stone"
• A precious stone; a gem.
• A hard mass of earthy or mineral matter: a precious stone or gem: a tombstone: a concretion formed in the bladder: a hard shell containing the seed of some fruits: a standard weight of 14 lbs. avoirdupois: torpor and insensibility.
• Mass of hard mineral; gem; hard seed of some fruits.
• A small piece of rock, or such pieces collectively.
• A stony concretion in the bladder.
• The hard covering of the kernel in a fruit.
• A measure of weight, avoirdupois, usually 14 pounds.
• An indurated mass of earthy matter; a gem or precious stone; anything made of stone; a calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; a testicle; the nut of a drupe or stone- fruit; the weight of fourteen pounds; a monument; torpidness and insensibility.
• Any loose mass of earthy matter of considerable hardness; a mineral; a gem; a morbid secretion formed in the bladder; the disease so called; a testicle; the hard kernel of a fruit; a weight of 14 lb.; a weight varying in amount; insensibility.
• of any of various dull tannish- gray colors
• 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"
• remove the pits from; " pit plums and cherries"
• 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.
• 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.
• Made of stone or earthenware; as, a stone jar.
• 1. Calculus. 2. An English unit of weight of the human body, equal to 14 pounds. 3. Noting a complete loss of any of the senses or of life; as stone blind, stone deaf, stone dead.
• Made of stone or like stone.
• Made of or resembling stone; hard.

Usage examples for stone

1. Lockley bent and picked up a stone.  Operation Terror by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

2. An hour later she is stone blind.  The Mystery of the Green Ray by William Le Queux

3. Come up to the old stone on the hill, and have some fresh air.  Mount Music by E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

4. Oh, how I would like to go back over that hollow door- stone again!  Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland