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An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]

tinuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation. "The constant buzz of a fly." Macaulay.

ide or incidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon.

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

ten a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. The baroness in a calash capable of holding herself, her two children, and her servants. W. Irving.

One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.

A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

rbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

Open or spongy, as some porous bones.

nterlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

White. [Obs.] The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden.

w, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. -- Cannon bullet, a cannon ball. [Obs.] -- Cannon cracker, a fire cracker of large size. -- Cannon lock, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. -- Cannon me…

To chant; to recite with musical tones. M. Stuart.