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 |
Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow |
Bolt (n.) Lightning |
Bolt (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. |
Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate |
Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner |
Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. |
Bolt (n.) A bundle, as of oziers. |
Bolt (v. t.) To shoot |
Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately |
Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing |
Bolt (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. |
Bolt (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth |
Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters |
Bolt (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow |
Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. |
Bolt (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path |
Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected |
Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt |
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start |
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. |
Bolt (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected |
Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter |
Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting |
Bolt (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal |
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 |
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 |
stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
bolt | a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) |
dash bolt | the act of moving with great haste, he made a dash for the door |
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 |
bolt | a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener |
bolt deadbolt | the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key |
bolt | a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech |
bolt | a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length |
bolt cutter | an implement for cutting bolts |
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 |
carriage bolt | a roundheaded bolt for timber, threaded along part of the shank, inserted into holes already drilled |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
expansion bolt | a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface |
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 |
lag screw lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
machine bolt | a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end, tightened with a wrench, used to connect metal parts |
menhir standing stone | a tall upright megalith, found primarily in England and northern France |
nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt |
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 |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
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 |
stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
stone | a lack of feeling or expression or movement, he must have a heart of stone, her face was as hard as stone |
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 |
nuts and bolts | detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished |
stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor, found in Florida but now very rare |
bladder stone cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
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 |
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 (-) |
Stone I. F. Stone Isidor Feinstein Stone | United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (-) |
Stone Lucy Stone | United States feminist and suffragist (-) |
Stone Oliver Stone | United States filmmaker (born in ) |
Stone Harlan Stone Harlan F. Stone Harlan Fisk Stone | United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in by Franklin D. Roosevelt (-) |