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Sardel :: Sardel (n.) A precious stone. See Sardius.

Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead..

Scotching :: Scotching (n.) Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.

Swinesty :: Swinestone (n.) See Stinkstone.

#NAME? :: -lite () Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc..

Frostwork :: Frostwork (n.) The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone..

King :: King (n.) A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer..

Crib :: Crib (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc..

Rough :: Rough (n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth..

Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n..

Redlegs :: Redlegs (n.) The turnstone.

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) to support and steady a stone.

Lapidifical :: Lapidifical (a.) Forming or converting into stone.

Glyptics :: Glyptics (n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

Crop :: Crop (n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial..

Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..

Touchstone :: Touchstone (n.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.

Mosaic :: Mosaic (n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work..

Squillitic :: Squilla (n.) Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.

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