stone

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose

   I wanted a special stone to mark the site.

2. 2
   noun

   a lack of feeling or expression or movement

   You'd have to have a heart of stone to ignore the display of adoptable puppies.

3. 3
   noun

   the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

   you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking

4. 4
   verb

   kill by throwing stones at

   People wanted to stone the child's parents for living out of wedlock.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

   […]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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 (…