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stone
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Adjective
  • of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
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
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)
  • United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
  • United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
  • United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
  • United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
  • United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
  • 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
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