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Tinstone :: Tinstone (n.) Cassiterite.

Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..

Inkstone :: Inkstone (n.) A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink..

Rhinestone :: Rhinestone (n.) A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament..

Granolithic :: Granolithic (n.) A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements..

Tailing :: Tailing (n.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

Lithophosphor :: Lithophosphor (n.) A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.

Otozoum :: Otozoum (n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones..

Stone-still :: Stonesmickle (n.) The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.

Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc..

Prunelle :: Prunelle (n.) A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..

Pietra Dura :: Pietra dura () Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble..

Psammite :: Psammite (n.) A species of micaceous sandstone.

Wick :: Wick (v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.

Bevel :: Bevel (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber..

Probe :: Probe (n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc..

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

Bake :: Bake (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples..

Bosom :: Bosom (n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.

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