Word Meanings - FLAGSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
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- PAVON
A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon. - SPLIT INFINITIVE
A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive. - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - PAVID
Timid; fearful. Thackeray. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - SPLITFEET
The Fissipedia. - PAVAGE
See PAVAGE - PAVESE; PAVESSE
Pavise. - PAVONIAN
Of or pertaining to a peacock. Southey. - SPLIT SWITCH
= Point switch. - PAVAN
A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. - PAVIER
A paver. - PAVEMENT
That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PAVONINE
Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo. 2. Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - SPLIT-TAIL
A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck. - SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - IMPAVE
To pave. Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - EYESTONE
Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - GALLSTONE
A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1. - EAGLESTONE
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aƫtites. - CROSS-STONE
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