Definition of Stone

Noun

  • a lack of feeling or expression or movement
    "he must have a heart of stone"
    "her face was as hard as stone"
  • United States architect (1902-1978)
    - edward durell stone
  • United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
    - harlan fiske stone
  • United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
    - i. f. stone - isidor feinstein stone
  • United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
    - lucy stone
  • United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
    - oliver stone
  • United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
    - harlan stone - harlan f. stone - harlan fisk stone
  • the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
    "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
  • an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body
    equal to 14 pounds
    "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
  • a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
    "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"
    "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
  • material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
    "that mountain is solid rock"
    "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
  • 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"
  • a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
    "he threw a rock at me"

Verb

  • remove the pits from
    "pit plums and cherries"
  • kill by throwing stones at
    "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"

Adjective

  • of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

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Unscramble stone

54 unscramble word found using the letters stone.

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