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Adamant :: Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.

Intagliated :: Intagliated (a.) Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone..

Whin :: Whin (n.) Same as Whinstone.

Petrary :: Petrary (n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

Holystone :: Holystone (n.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.

Greenstone :: Greenstone (n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc..

Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub..

Stonebrearer :: Stonebrash (n.) A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus..

Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) See Bloodstone (a).

Dibstone :: Dibstone (n.) A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.

Tufa :: Tufa () A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc..

Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove..

Pebblestone :: Pebblestone () A pebble; also, pebbles collectively..

Calyon :: Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc..

Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones..

Cobblestone :: Cobblestone (n.) A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

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