• noun:   building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose

  Example: "He wanted a special stone to mark the site"

• noun:   a lack of feeling or expression or movement

  Example: "He must have a heart of stone"

• noun:   United States architect (1902-1978)
• noun:   United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
• noun:   United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
• noun:   United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
• noun:   United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
• noun:   the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

  Example: "You should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"

• noun:   an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds

  Example: "A heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"

• noun:   a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
• noun:   material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

  Example: "Stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

• noun:   a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

  Example: "She had jewels made of all the rarest stones"

• verb:   kill by throwing stones at

  Example: "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"

• verb:   remove the pits from
• adjective:   of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
• name:  A surname (common: 1 in 1694 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #158)

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