Alum stone () A subsulphate of alumina and potash |
Amazon stone (n.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. |
Arch stone () A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch |
Caen stone () A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France. |
Cross-stone (n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide. |
Dry-stone (a.) Constructed of uncemented stone. |
Gravel-stone (n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone |
Grindle stone () A grindstone. |
Jew's-stone (n.) Alt. of Jewstone |
Natural (a.) Fixed or determined by nature |
Natural (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature |
Natural (a.) Having to do with existing system to things |
Natural (a.) Conformed to truth or reality |
Natural (a.) Springing from true sentiment |
Natural (a.) Resembling the object imitated |
Natural (a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position |
Natural (a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity. |
Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law |
Natural (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual |
Natural (a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1 |
Natural (a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. |
Natural (a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major. |
Natural (a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. |
Natural (n.) A native |
Natural (n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc. |
Natural (n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding |
Natural (n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note. |
Perpend stone () See Perpender. |
Perpent stone () See Perpender. |
Portland stone () A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building. |
Pumice stone () Same as Pumice. |
Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England. |
Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force. |
Ro-setta stone () A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. |
Stepping-stone (n.) A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking. |
Stepping-stone (n.) Fig.: A means of progress or advancement. |
Stone (n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter |
Stone (n.) A precious stone |
Stone (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: - |
Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror |
Stone (n.) A monument to the dead |
Stone (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder |
Stone (n.) One of the testes |
Stone (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes |
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 |
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 |
Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. |
Stone (n.) To make like stone |
Stone (n.) To free from stones |
natural object | an object occurring naturally, not made by man |
stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
natural | (craps) a first roll of or that immediately wins the stake |
stone crab Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
stone curlew thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus | large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint |
stonefly stone fly plecopteran | primitive winged insect with a flattened body, used as bait by fishermen, aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones |
stone marten beech marten Martes foina | Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat |
stone bass wreckfish Polyprion americanus | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
abrading stone | a primitive stone artifact (usually made of sandstone) used as an abrader |
Blarney Stone | a stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
capstone copestone coping stone stretcher | a stone that forms the top of wall or building |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
foundation stone | a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building |
jewel gem precious stone | a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry |
menhir standing stone | a tall upright megalith, found primarily in England and northern France |
paving stone | a stone used for paving |
pit quarry stone pit | a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate, a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit' |
revetment revetement stone facing | a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment |
stone | 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 |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
stone | a lack of feeling or expression or movement, he must have a heart of stone, her face was as hard as stone |
natural virtue | (scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature |
natural ability | ability that is inherited |
endowment gift talent natural endowment | natural abilities or qualities |
natural history | the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals |
law natural law | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
natural science | the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena |
physics natural philosophy r | the science of matter and energy and their interactions, his favorite subject was physics |
natural language processing NLP human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
natural theology | a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation |
Rosetta Stone | a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in BC, the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics |
natural language processor natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
natural logarithm Napierian logarithm | a logarithm to the base e |
natural cancel | a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat |
natural language tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |
happening occurrence occurrent natural event | an event that happens |
stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor, found in Florida but now very rare |
Royal Society Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
bladder stone cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
covering natural covering cover | a natural object that covers or envelops, under a covering of dust, the fox was flushed from its cover |
enclosure natural enclosure | a naturally enclosed space |
kidney stone urinary calculus nephrolith renal calculus | a calculus formed in the kidney |
natural depression depression | a sunken or depressed geological formation |
natural elevation elevation | a raised or elevated geological formation |
natural order | the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws |
rock stone | a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter, he threw a rock at me |
spring fountain outflow outpouring natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
stepping stone | a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing |