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Stone [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made of stone or like stone; as a stone jug.

Stone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A concretion of some species of earth, as lime, silex, clay and the like, usually in combination with some species of air or gas, with sulphur or with a metallic substance; a hard compact body, of any form and size. In popular language, very large masses of concretions are called rocks; and very small concretions are universally called gravel or sand, or grains of sand. Stones are of various degrees of hardness and weight; they are brittle and fusible, but not malleable, ductile, or soluble in water. Stones are of great and extensive use int he construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture and the like. When we speak of the substance generally, we use stone in the singular; as a house or wall of stone But when we speak of particular separate masses, we say, a stone or the stones.

2. A gem; a precious stone

3. Inestimable stones, unvalud jewels.

4. Any thing made of stone; a mirror.

5. A calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

6. A testicle.

7. The nut of a drupe or stone fruit; or the hard covering inclosing the kernel, and itself inclosed by the pulpy pericarp.

8. In Great Britain, the weight of fourteen pounds. [8, 12, 14, or 16.] [Not used in the United States, except in reference to the riders of horses in races.]

9. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.

10. Should some relentless eye glance on the stone where our cold relics lie--

11. It is used to express torpidness and insensibility; as a heart of stone

12. I have not yet forgot myself to stone

13. stone is prefixed to some words to qualify their signification. Thus stone-dead, is perfectly dead, as lifeless as a stone; stone-still, still as a stone perfectly still; stone-blind, blind as a stone perfectly blind.

14. To leave no stone unturned, a proverbial expression which signifies to do every thing that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

15. Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the displosion of a meteor.

16. Philosophers stone a pretended substance that was formerly supposed to have the property of turning any other substance into gold.

Stone [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pelt, beat or kill with stones.

2. And they stoned Stephen calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts 7:58 .

3. To harden.

4. O perjurd woman, thou dost stone my heart. [Little used.]

5. To free from stones; as, to stone raisins.

6. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

Stone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. A precious stone; a gem.

3. Something made of stone. Specifically: -

4. The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

5. A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

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

7. One of the testes; a testicle.

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.

10. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

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.

12. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

13. To make like stone; to harden.

14. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

15. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

16. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Stone Encyclopedia Britannica

STONE, a market-town of Staffordshire, England, on the river Trent, and on the North Staffordshire Railway, 7 miles south of Stoke and 7 north of Stafford. Part of the walls remain of an abbey which dates from the foundation of a college of canons in 670. The present church was opened in 1750. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in shoemaking, but malting, brewing, and tanning are also carried on. The population of the urban sanitary district (estimated area 1000 acres) was 5669 in 1881.

STONE. See Vesical Diseases.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 576
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Stone Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

This word is sometimes taken in the sense of rock, and is applied figuratively to God, as the refuge of his people. See _Rock_, The Hebrews gave the name of “stones” to the weights used in commerce; no doubt because they were originally formed of stone. “Just weights,” is therefore in Hebrew, “just stones.” “The corner stone,” or “the head stone of the corner,” is a figurative representation of Christ. It is the stone at the angle of a building, whether at the foundation or the top of the wall. Christ was that corner stone, which, though rejected by the Jews, became the corner stone of the church, and the stone that binds and unites the synagogue and the Gentiles in the unity of the same faith. Some have thought the showers of stones cast down by the Lord out of heaven, mentioned several times in the Old Testament, to be showers of hail of extraordinary size; which was probably the case, as they even now sometimes occur in those countries in a most terrific and destructive form, and show how irresistible an agent this meteor is in the hands of an offended God. The knives of stone that were made use of by the Jews in circumcision, were not enjoined by the law; but the use of them was founded, either upon custom, or upon the experience that this kind of instrument is found to be less dangerous than those made of metal. Zipporah made use of a stone to circumcise her sons, Exod. iv, 25. Joshua, v, 2, did the same, when he caused such of the Israelites to be circumcised at Gilgal, as had not received circumcision during their journey in the wilderness. The Egyptians, according to Herodotus, made use of knives of stone to open dead bodies that were to be embalmed; and Pliny assures us, that the priests of the mother of the gods had sharp stones, with which ...

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Stone masonry Encyclopedia Britannica

STONE MASONRY. See Building, vol. iv. p. 468.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 576
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Stone-blind [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Blind as a stone; perfectly blind.

Stone-blind [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

As blind as a stone; completely blind.

Stone-bow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A cross bow for shooting stones.

Stone-break [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant.

Stone-chat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A bird, the Motacilla rubicola.

Stone-cold [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cold as a stone.

Stone-cray [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A distemper in hawks.

Stone-crop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sort of tree. A plant of the genus Sedum; wall-pepper. The stone-crop tree or shrubby glass-wort is of the genus Chenopodium.

Stone-dead [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

As lifeless as a stone.

Stone-dead [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

As dead as a stone.

Stone-deaf [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.

Stone-fern [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant.

Stone-fly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An insect.

Stone-fruit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fruit whose seeds are covered with a hard shell enveloped in the pulp, as peaches, cherries, plums, etc.; a drupe.

Stone-hawk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of hawk.

Stone-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Hard hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Stone-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Stone-horse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A house built of stone.

Stone-horse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stallion.

Stone-house [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A house built of stone.

Stone-parsley [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Bubon.

Stone-pit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A pit or quarry where stones are dug.

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379 KJV and 317 BSB verses contain “stone” — showing the first 20. Show all 408 verses (searchable)

Genesis 2:12

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 28:11

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

Genesis 28:18

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

Genesis 28:22

And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Genesis 29:2

And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:3

And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.

When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:8

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

Genesis 29:10

And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Genesis 31:45

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Genesis 31:46

And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

Genesis 35:14

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

Genesis 49:24

But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Exodus 4:25

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

Exodus 7:19

And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.

And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”

Exodus 8:26

And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?

Exodus 15:5

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Exodus 15:16

Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.

Exodus 17:4

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

Exodus 17:12

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

When Moses’ hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one on each side, so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.