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. |
Calculus
(n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them |
Calculus
(n.) A method of computation |
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 |
Kidney
(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body |
Kidney
(n.) Habit |
Kidney
(n.) A waiter. |
Kidney-form
(a.) Alt. of Kidney-shaped |
Kidney-shaped
(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney |
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. |
Renal
(a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys |
Renal-portal
(a.) Both renal and portal. See Portal. |
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 |
Stone
(n.) To wall or face with stones |
Stone
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone. |
Stone-blind
(a.) As blind as a stone |
Stone-cold
(a.) Cold as a stone. |
Stone-dead
(a.) As dead as a stone. |
Stone-deaf
(a.) As deaf as a stone |
Stone-hearted
(a.) Hard-hearted |
Stone-horse
(n.) Stallion. |
Stone-still
(a.) As still as a stone. |
| stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
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 |
artificial kidney
hemodialyzer | a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body |
| 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 |
malpighian body
malpighian corpuscle
renal corpuscle | the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron |
| kidney | either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine, urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder |
| arcuate artery of the kidney | curved arteries of the kidney |
renal artery
arteria renalis | an artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands and ureters |
arcuate vein of the kidney
vena arcuata renis | veins that receive blood from interlobular veins of kidney and rectal venules |
renal vein
vena renalis | veins that accompany renal arteries, open into the vena cava at the level of the nd lumbar vertebra |
| renal cortex | the cortex of the kidney containing the glomeruli and the convoluted tubules |
| pelvis renal pelvis | a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter |
calculus
infinitesimal calculus | the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions |
differential calculus
method of fluxions | the part of calculus that deals with the variation of a function with respect to changes in the independent variable (or variables) by means of the concepts of derivative and differential |
| integral calculus | the part of calculus that deals with integration and its application in the solution of differential equations and in determining areas or volumes etc. |
| calculus of variations | the calculus of maxima and minima of definite integrals |
propositional logic
propositional calculus | a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them |
predicate calculus
functional calculus | a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions) |
| 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 |
| kidney bean | large dark red bean, usually dried |
| stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor, found in Florida but now very rare |
| steak and kidney pie | steak with sauteed kidneys and onions cooked in wine and stock then covered with pastry and baked |
| kidney pie | like steak and kidney pie but without steak |
bladder stone
cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
calculus
concretion | a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts, found in hollow organs or ducts of the body, renal calculi can be very painful |
kidney stone
urinary calculus
nephrolith
renal calculus | a calculus formed in the kidney |
| rock stone | a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter, he threw a rock at me |
sialolith
salivary calculus | a stone formed in the salivary gland |
| stepping stone | a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing |
tartar
calculus tophus | an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums |
| stone breaker | someone who breaks up stone |
Stone
Edward Durell Stone | United States architect (-) |
| Stone Harlan Fiske Stone | United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (-) |