stone

To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.

Adjective

  1. Constructed of stone.
    • stone walls

    Synonyms: stonen

  2. Having the appearance of stone.
    • stone pot
  3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  4. Used as an intensifier.
    • She is one stone fox.
    • Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that. - 1994, Andrew H. Vachss, Born Bad: Stories:
    • Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with. - 2000 September 9,...
  5. Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
    • stone butch
    • stone femme
    • Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched. - 1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles:...

    Antonyms: pillow princess

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old English stān Middle English ston English stone From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognates Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), Yola sthoan (“stone”), North Frisian stean, stian, stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Alemannic German Steei (“rock, stone”), Bavarian Staa (“rock, stone”), Central Franconian Steen, Stään (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“rock, stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish and Swedish sten...

Forms

styen stean

Adverb

  1. As a stone (used with following adjective).
    • My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
  2. Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
    • I went stone crazy after she left.
    • I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

Forms

styen stean

Derived

Abrasax stone Adamic stone adder stone airstone alley stone altar stone altar-stone alum stone alumstone amazonstone Ancaster stone appeal to the stone archstone a rolling stone gathers no moss Atlas stone axstone bafflestone baking stone Balin stone Bargate stone Bath stone beat one's head against a stone wall bedstone beerstone

Noun

  1. A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
    • Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot. - c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr....
    • The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […]...
    • It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite...

    Synonyms: rock

  2. A piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.
    • A railway station which formerly stood a few miles from Sydney has recently been demolished, stone by stone, and has been re-erected as a church in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra, about 200 miles away. -...
  3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
    • […]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…] - c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...
  4. A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
    • British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. -...
    • Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. - 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume...
  5. The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
    • Near-synonym: pip
    • a peach stone

    Synonyms: pit seed pit pyrena pyrene pip

  6. A hard, stone-like deposit.
    • The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth. - 2016 September 26, James Hamblin, “A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters”, in The Atlantic:

    Synonyms: calculus

  7. A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
  8. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  9. A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

    Synonyms: curling stone

  10. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
    • Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie. - 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton...
    • It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone[…] - 2013 November 25, Zayn Malik, “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories, Columbia Records; Syco Music:
  11. A mirror, or its glass.
    • She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues. - c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
  12. A testicle.
    • […]and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone? - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
    • Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC,...
    • To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough...

Forms

stones stone styen stean

Synonyms

rock pebble petra pip pit hard stone-like deposit

Verb

  1. To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
    • stoned to death
    • She got stoned to death after they found her.
    • 55 But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man...
  2. To wall or wall up with stones.
    • […] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use. - 1974, Mathias Peter...

    Synonyms: stean

  3. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

    Synonyms: destone pit

  4. To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
  5. Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
  6. To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
    • I was stoning the whole of today. - 2003, Roger, Joy, Vera and Amanda Loh, Facts about Singapore: Differences between Ohio and Singapore:
    • Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning. - 2011 November 2, Shermaine Ong, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling. - 2015 April 8, Becky Osawa, Trekking...
  7. To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
    • Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.

Origin

From Middle English stonen, stanen, from Old English *stānian (“to stone”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainōn, from Proto-Germanic *stainōną (“to stone”). Cognate with Scots stane (“to stone”), German Low German stenen (“to stone”), Danish stene (“to stone”), Swedish stena (“to stone”), Faroese steina (“to stone”). Compare also Saterland Frisian stenigje (“to stone”), West Frisian stiennigje (“to stone”), Dutch stenigen (“to stone”), German steinigen (“to stone”).

Forms

stones stoning stoned

Synonyms

lapidate stean chill chillax chill out hang out rilek daydream veg out

Related

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