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A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

A machine for crushing or hammering stone. Knight.

See Steinbock.

active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.

A distemper in hawks.

rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine. Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant (Penthorum sedoides).

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

Hewing or dressing stone.

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.

The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch. [Prov. Eng.]

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.

Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.