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 |
Blind (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation |
Blind (a.) Not having the faculty of discernment |
Blind (a.) Undiscerning |
Blind (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind |
Blind (a.) Involved |
Blind (a.) Having no openings for light or passage |
Blind (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible |
Blind (a.) Abortive |
Blind (v. t.) To make blind |
Blind (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision |
Blind (v. t.) To darken |
Blind (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel |
Blind (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light |
Blind (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design |
Blind (n.) A blindage. See Blindage. |
Blind (n.) A halting place. |
Blind (n.) Alt. of Blinde |
Caen stone () A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France. |
Color-blind (a.) Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n. |
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. |
Hoodman-blind (n.) An old term for blindman's buff. |
Jew's-stone (n.) Alt. of Jewstone |
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. |
Sand-blind (a.) Having defective sight |
Snow-blind (a.) Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. |
Star-blind (a.) Half blind. |
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. |
Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock |
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. |
blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement, all the clues led the police into blind alleys, so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley |
stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
double-blind procedure double-blind experiment double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
blind flying blind landing | using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc. |
blind stitching | stitching that is not easily seen or noticed |
double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
amphiuma congo snake congo eel blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
blind snake worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
western blind snake Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
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 |
blind screen | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet |
blind | a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters), he waited impatiently in the blind |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
blind curve blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
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 |
roller blind | a window shade that rolls up out of the way |
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 |
Venetian blind | a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed |
window blind | a blind for privacy or to keep out light |
stone | a lack of feeling or expression or movement, he must have a heart of stone, her face was as hard as stone |
blind spot optic disc optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
cecum caecum blind gut | the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens, the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum |
blind spot | a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment, golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it |
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 |
subterfuge blind | something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity, he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge, the holding company was just a blind |
stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor, found in Florida but now very rare |
blind | people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group, he spent hours reading to the blind |
blind date | a date with a stranger, she never goes on blind dates |
blind side | the side on which your vision is limited or obstructed |
bladder stone cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
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 |
stepping stone | a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing |
color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |