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Apotome :: Apotome (n.) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.

Burrel Shot :: Burrel shot () A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency..

Concord :: Concord (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Oxytonical :: Oxytonical (a.) Oxytone.

Freestone :: Freestone (a.) Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches..

Apology :: Apology (n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret..

Tiger-eye :: Tiger-eye (n.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite..

Gurgle :: Gurgle (v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones..

Stonehenge :: Stone-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Warble :: Warble (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Mesogaster :: Mesogaster (n.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.

Tonus :: Tonus (n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus..

Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..

Ashler :: Ashler (n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick..

Lithotome :: Lithotome (n.) An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.

Sisyphus :: Sisyphus (n.) A king of Corinth, son of Aeolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant..

Gravel :: Gravel (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand..

Friz :: Friz (v. t.) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument..

Gravel-stone :: Gravel-stone (n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus..

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