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A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.

Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

A grapestone.

his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] Shak.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

r the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

onisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

See Eaglestone.

nt, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

The act of affeering. Blackstone.