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Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Ginging :: Ginging (n.) The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

Terminus :: Terminus (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8..

Coussinet :: Coussinet (n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.

Petrous :: Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone..

Autography :: Autography (n.) A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.

Salamstone :: Salamstone (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.

Mask :: Mask (n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron..

Medina Epoch :: Medina epoch () A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology..

Stoner :: Stone-horse (n.) Stallion.

Stonily :: Stonewort (n.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

Rubblework :: Rubblework (n.) Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.

Kingstone :: Kingstone (n.) The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel..

Spall :: Spall (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge..

Atrypa :: Atrypa (n.) A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones..

Lithofellic :: Lithofellic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope..

Sassanage :: Sassanage (n.) Stones left after sifting.

Stone :: Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones..

Diker :: Diker (n.) One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime..

Dress :: Dress (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

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