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. |
Cassiterite (n.) Native tin dioxide |
Cross-stone (n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide. |
Dry-stone (a.) Constructed of uncemented stone. |
Floor (n.) The bottom or lower part of any room |
Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. |
Floor (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel |
Floor (n.) A story of a building. See Story. |
Floor (n.) The part of the house assigned to the members. |
Floor (n.) The right to speak. |
Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. |
Floor (n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. |
Floor (n.) A horizontal, flat ore body. |
Floor (v. t.) To cover with a floor |
Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor |
Floor (v. t.) To finish or make an end of |
Gravel-stone (n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone |
Grindle stone () A grindstone. |
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. |
Squat (n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus). |
Squat (v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels |
Squat (v. t.) To sit close to the ground |
Squat (v. t.) To settle on another's land without title |
Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall. |
Squat (a.) Sitting on the hams or heels |
Squat (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. |
Squat (n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground. |
Squat (n.) A sudden or crushing fall. |
Squat (n.) A small vein of ore. |
Squat (n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. |
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 |
dunk dunk shot stuff shot | a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket |
stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
squat squatting | the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels |
cabaret floorshow floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
knee bend squat squatting | exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent, strengthens the leg muscles |
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 |
dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
floor flooring | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure), they needed rugs to cover the bare floors, we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent |
floor level storey story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
floor trading floor | a large room in a exchange where the trading is done, he is a floor trader |
floor | the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business, there was a motion from the floor |
floorboard floor board | a board in the floor |
floor cover floor covering | a covering for a floor |
floor joist | joist that supports a floor |
floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
floor plan | scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level, contrasts with elevation |
fly gallery fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
foundation stone | a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building |
ground floor first floor ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the 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 |
mezzanine mezzanine floor entresol | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
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 |
shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
small stuff | any light rope used on shipboard |
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 |
stuff | miscellaneous unspecified objects, the trunk was full of stuff |
threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
stone | a lack of feeling or expression or movement, he must have a heart of stone, her face was as hard as stone |
real McCoy real thing real stuff | informal usage attributing authenticity |
hot stuff | the quality of being popular, skiing is hot stuff in New Hampshire |
floor | the parliamentary right to address an assembly, the chairman granted him the floor |
privilege of the floor | the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session |
stuff | unspecified qualities required to do or be something, the stuff of heros, you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine |
hot stuff voluptuousness | the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting), he thought she was really hot stuff |
stuff | a critically important or characteristic component, suspense is the very stuff of narrative |
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 |