Word Meanings - LOGAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rocking or balanced stone. Gwill.

Related words: (words related to LOGAN)

• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• ROCKLESS
  Being without rocks. Dryden.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• ROCKER
  See INSANE (more info) 1. One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle. It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy. Fuller.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• ROCK SHAFT
  A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and
• ROCKING-STONE
  A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• ROCKERY
  A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• STONE
  1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59. 2. To make like stone; to harden. O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. Shak. 3. To free from stones;
• ROCKET
  A cruciferous plant sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. Damewort. Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur , an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes . -- Sea rocket , either
• ROCKINESS
  The state or quality of being rocky.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• STONEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• ROCKING-HORSE
  The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
• STONE-HORSE
  Stallion. Mortimer.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• 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,
• PARROCK
  A croft, or small field; a paddock.
• 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; aëtites.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• GIRROCK
  A garfish. Johnson.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• PERPENT STONE
  See PERPENDER
• DOORSTONE
  The stone forming a threshold.