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A cobblestone. [Obs.]

See Harmotome, and Staurotide.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.

Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.

A stone Curbstone broker.See under Broker.

Semitone. [R.]

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

The stone forming a threshold.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.

Constructed of uncemented stone. "Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott.

Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid. [Written also eupitton.]

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

See Felsite.

A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces. Ure.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.