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Cairn :: Cairn (n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument..

Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

Lithotrity :: Lithotrity (n.) The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope..

Flag :: Flag (v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.

Quern :: Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.

Eburin :: Eburin (n.) A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc..

Touchstone :: Touchstone (n.) Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Marver :: Marver (n.) A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape..

Nutlet :: Nutlet (n.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe..

Hopscotch :: Hopscotch (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers..

Curbstone :: Curbstone (n.) A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone..

Croylstone :: Croylstone (n.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone..

Blond Metal :: Blond metal () A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools..

Jew''s-stone :: Jew's-stone (n.) Alt. of Jewston.

Muschelkalk :: Muschelkalk (n.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology..

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