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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Eaglestonenoun
A stone said to be found at the entrance of the holes in which the eagles make their nests, and affirmed to have a particular virtue in defending the eagle’s nest from thunder. The stones of this kind which are most valued are flat and blackish, and sound, if shaken near the ear; a lesser stone being contained in the greater. Augustin Calmet
The eaglestone contains, in a cavity within it, a small loose stone, which rattles when it is shaken; and every fossil, with a nucleus in it, has obtained the name. The sort of analogy that was supposed to be between a stone, thus containing another within it, or, as the fanciful writers express it, pregnant with another, and a woman big with child, led people to imagine that it must have great virtues and effects in accelerating or retarding delivery; so that, if tied to the arm of a woman with child, it prevents abortion; and if to the leg, it promotes delivery. It is pretended, that the eagles seek for these stones to lay in their nests, and that they cannot hatch their young without. On such idle and imaginary virtues was raised all the credit which this famous fossil possessed for many ages. John Hill, Materia Medica.
If you stop the holes of a hawk’s bell it will make no ring, but a flat noise or rattle; and so doth the ætites, or eaglestone, which hath a little stone within it. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.
Webster Dictionary
Eaglestonenoun
a concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of eaglestone in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of eaglestone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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