stone

stone is a Noun

Definition:

[1] Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

[2] A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." Shak.

[3] Something made of stone. Specifically: -

[4] The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Shak.

[5] A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. Pope.

[6] A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

[7] One of the testes; a testicle. Shak.

[8] The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

[9] A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]

[10] Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. Pope.

[11] 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; -- called also imposing stone.