Stonebrearer
(Stone"brear`er) n. A machine for crushing or hammering stone. Knight.
Stonebuck
(Stone"buck`) n. (Zoöl.) See Steinbock.
Stonechat
(Stone"chat`) n. [Stone + chat.] [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking
together of two pebbles.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola
rubicola); — called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. (b) The
wheatear. (c) The blue titmouse.
The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the
pied stonechat of India
Stone-cold
(Stone"-cold`) a. Cold as a stone.
Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame.
Fairfax. Stonecray
(Stone"cray`) n. [Stone + F. craie chalk, L. creta.] A distemper in hawks.
Stonecrop
(Stone"crop`) n. [AS. stancropp.]
1. A sort of tree. [Obs.] Mortimer.
2. (Bot.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare
rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine.
Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant (Penthorum sedoides).
Stonecutter
(Stone"cut`ter) n. One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
Stonecutting
(Stone"cut`ting) n. Hewing or dressing stone.
Stone-dead
(Stone"-dead`) a. As dead as a stone.
Stone-deaf
(Stone"-deaf`) a. As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
Stonegall
(Stone"gall`) n. [Cf. D. steengal, G. steingall. See Stannel.] (Zoöl.) See Stannel. [Prov.
Eng.]
Stonehatch
(Stone"hatch`) n. (Zoöl.) The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
Stone-hearted
(Stone"-heart`ed) a. Hard- hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
Stonehenge
(Stone"henge) n. An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their
tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, — generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Stone-horse
(Stone"-horse`) n. Stallion. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Stoner
(Ston"er) n.
1. One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
2. One who walls with stones.
Stoneroot
(Stone"root`) n. (Bot.) A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard
root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
