stone

Adjective

• of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

Verb

• remove the pits from
  • pit plums and cherries
    

• kill by throwing stones at
  • People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
    

Noun

• a lack of feeling or expression or movement
  • he must have a heart of stone
    
  • her face was as hard as stone
    

• United States architect (1902-1978)

• United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)

• United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

• United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

• United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

• United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

• 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
    

• an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
  • a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
    

• a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
  • he had the gem set in a ring for his wife
    
  • she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
    

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
  • that mountain is solid rock
    
  • stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
    

• building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
  • he wanted a special stone to mark the site
    

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
  • he threw a rock at me
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pit , lapidate , Stone , Edward Durell Stone , Harlan Fiske Stone , I. F. Stone , Isidor Feinstein Stone , Lucy Stone , Oliver Stone , Harlan Stone , Harlan F. Stone , Harlan Fisk Stone , endocarp , gem , gemstone , rock