Word Meanings - ROCKING-STONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to ROCKING-STONE)

• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• ROCKLESS
  Being without rocks. Dryden.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• 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.
• PARROCK
  A croft, or small field; a paddock.
• 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,
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT