3. (noun)rock, stone 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"
4. (noun)gem, gemstone, stone 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"
5. (noun)stone an avoirdupoisunit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
6. (noun)stone, pit, endocarp 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"
7. (noun)Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone United States jurist who was named chiefjustice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
8. (noun)Stone, Oliver Stone United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
9. (noun)Stone, Lucy Stone United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
10. (noun)Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
11. (noun)Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chiefjustice (1872-1946)
12. (noun)Stone, Edward Durell Stone United States architect (1902-1978)
13. (adj)stone a lack of feeling or expression or movement "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
14. (verb)stone of any of various dull tannish or greycolors
15. (verb)stone, lapidate kill by throwing stones at "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
16. (verb)pit, stone remove the pits from "pit plums and cherries"
2. stone a smallpiece of rock children throwing stones into the water
3. stone a large, hard seed in some fruits a nectarine stone
4. stone a unit used in the U.K. for measuring weight, equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms He weighs just over 12 stone.
5. (verb)stone to throw stones at sb as a punishment He was stoned to death by the crowd.
Definition of 'stone'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)stone concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones
2. (noun)stone a precious stone; a gem
3. (noun)stone something made of stone. Specifically: -
5. (noun)stone a monument to the dead; a gravestone
6. (noun)stone a calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus
7. (noun)stone one of the testes; a testicle
8. (noun)stone the hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp
9. (noun)stone a weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed
10. (noun)stone fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone
11. (noun)stone a stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone
12. (noun)stone to pelt, beat, or kill with stones