Definition of ton

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Ton (n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden..

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Mine :: Mine (v. i.) To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise..
Calumet :: Calumet (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers..
Ralstonite :: Ralstonite (n.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
Polymnite :: Polymnite (n.) A stone marked with dendrites and black lines, and so disposed as to represent rivers, marshes, etc..
Architectonical :: Architectonical (a.) Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive..
Analysis :: Analysis (n.) A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis..
Thunderstone :: Thunderstone (n.) A belemnite. See Belemnite.
Warble :: Warble (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
Acton :: Acton (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail..
Hailshot :: Hailshot (n. pl.) Small shot which scatter like hailstones.
Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..
Maze :: Maze (v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
Interweave :: Interweave (v. t.) To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Monotonist :: Monotonist (n.) One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
Mixture :: Mixture (n.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone..
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..
Oxime :: Oxime (n.) One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones.
Articulator :: Articulator (n.) One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering..
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
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