1. noun /stəʊn,stoʊn/
, 1843: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. — The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
b) A small piece of stone.
, 1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.
2. verb /stəʊn,stoʊn/
b) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
3. adjective /stəʊn,stoʊn/
a) Constructed of stone.
stone walls
b) Having the appearance of stone.
stone pot
4. adverb /stəʊn,stoʊn/
a) As a stone (used with following adjective).
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
b) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
I went stone crazy after she left.
See Also: acrolith, lapidary, lapidate, litharge, lithiasis, lithic, lithify, lithography, lithoid, lithotomy, lithotripsy, lithotripter, menhir, monolithic, sangar, sardonyx, sarsen, saxatile, saxicolous, saxifrage, trilithon
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