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Alum stone.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

rom fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

t an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]

ns of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

leasing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone.

ly apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

sive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.