Word Meanings - PETROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See PETROSAL (more info) 1. Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.

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• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• 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.
• TEMPORAL
  Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
• HOOPER
  One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• STONY
  1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• 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;
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• STONEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• TEMPORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
• STONE-HORSE
  Stallion. Mortimer.
• STONECROP
  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 . (more info) 1. A sort of tree. Mortimer.
• STONEWORK
  Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.
• STONECUTTER
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• STONE-COLD
  Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• WHOOPER
  One who, or that which, whooops. Woopher swan. See the Note under Swan.
• 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,
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• SALTPETROUS
  Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
• 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
• ASTONY
  To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• PERPENT STONE
  See PERPENDER