stone

Stone may refer to: In construction and building Masonry, the building of structures from stoneCoade stone, a special form of vitreous stoneware, used for monumental work and architectural decorationStanding stone, a solitary stone set vertically into the ground, the types of stone used in building, sculpture, and masonry work
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To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
  

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To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
  

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To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
  

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To make like stone; to harden.
  

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To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
  

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The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
  

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The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
  

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Something made of stone. Specifically: -
  

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One of the testes; a testicle.
  

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Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
  

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Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
  

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A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
  

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A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
  

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A precious stone; a gem.
  

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A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
  

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A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
  

Stone(s) There is available numerous testimony as to animated stones, speaking stones, etc. There is the Christ-stone, which followed the Israelites; the Jupiter Lapis swallowed by Saturn; the testimony of Pausanias as to the Grecian worship of stones; the Ophites and Siderites, serpent-stones and star-stones, the former being alleged to have the gift of speech; the baituloi or alleged animated stones mentioned by Sanchoniathon and Philo Byblius; the liafail or speaking stone of Westminster; Pliny's stones which ran away when a hand approached them; the importance attached to stone monuments and rocking stones; etc. (SD 2:341 et seq). Again, we have the vast subject of talismans and of gems with potent properties.
A stone is an organism enshrining a divine spark or monad. The difference between the stone and the man consists largely in the fact that what is expressed in man is latent in the stone. Why then should not the hierophants of genuine magic or occult science have been able to evoke from the stone its latent potencies? Why should not particular stones, like particular plants, animals, or men, possess particular virtues?
Unless modern science is prepared to make of the physical atom a primordial existence, it must seek the origin elsewhere. Physical matter is a concretion of universal light or radiation; but it needs the eye of a seer to perceive what starry virtue lies sleeping in the gem or the talisman; the skill of the magician to known what can be done by placing stones in a particular grouping, perhaps with certain ceremonies, etc.
The word has symbolic uses, as in the white stone with a new name inscribed in it, which is given to him that overcomes in Revelations; the stone that the builders rejected; stones in the Guardian Wall; etc.

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