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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
    See STAUROTIDE

 

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