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Ballast :: Ballast (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete..

Stonecutter :: Stonecrop (n.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine..

Potstone :: Potstone (n.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

Oolite :: Oolite (n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology..

Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.

Bugle :: Bugle (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..

Debacle :: Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris..

Saxifragous :: Saxifragous (a.) Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder..

Quarry-faced :: Quarry-faced (a.) Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

Table :: Table (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table..

Soapstone :: Soapstone (n.) See Steatite, and Talc..

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone..

Brontozoum :: Brontozoum (n.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone..

Fall :: Fall (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence..

Hydroperitoneum :: Hydroperitoneum (n.) Same as Ascites.

Stone-hearted :: Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel..

Generator :: Generator (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

Nephrite :: Nephrite (n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade..

Minor :: Minor (a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third..

Lithodome :: Lithodome (n.) Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus..

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