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roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." Shak. As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.

Abounding in pebbles. Thomson.

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.

See Algorism. [Obs.] Chaucer. Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. -- Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer.

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.

A native or an inhabitant of Brazil. Brazilian pebble. See Pebble, n., 2.

Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. Haliwell.

A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.

A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [Scot.]

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

ice for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.

the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

like; - - called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.

act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

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