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What does the word stone mean?

See Calculus. Blue s., copper sulphate. Gall-s., a biliary calculus.
1. Calculus. 2. An English unit of weight of the human body, equal to 14 pounds. 3. Noting a complete loss of any of the senses or of life; as stone blind, stone deaf, stone dead.

Usage examples for stone

Here, John Henry, bring me another cup of coffee; this's stone- cold. – The Other Fellow by F. Hopkinson Smith
When he desired to please, his conversation and the expression of his face must have moved a temperament of stone itself. – Richard Carvel, Volume 5 by Winston Churchill
He could not, or would not, put his feet on the stone steps. – The Northern Iron 1907 by George A. Birmingham

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What does the word stone mean?

Usage examples for stone