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building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" United States architect (1902-1978) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) United States filmmaker (born in 1946) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran" of any of various dull tannish-gray colors chromatic a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth''s crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" |
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