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To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.

A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.

A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig. A plain brown bob he wore. Shenstone.

A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

e made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fl…

Bolognese. Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths…

A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

The pledge or surety thus given. Blackstone. Tomlins.

on, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

A depression round the eye of a millstone. Knight.

A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.

The part of a sling that contains the stone. [Obs.]

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.