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Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.

Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.

An antilithic medicine.

rtaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

Relating to stone in the bladder.

A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.

Formed of small stones.

Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.

f or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone. The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the "Stone age;" the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the sto…

of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to otoliths.

Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

Same as Pyrouric, or Cyanuric.

Pertaining to a trilith.

es are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.

A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate. [Obs.] [Written also lithiate.]

Monolithic.

ignating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been widespread in paleolithic Europe.