n. 1. 1 genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeast Asia and Polynesia.
Syn. -- genus Alstonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Min.) A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Named from the river Amazon. ] (Min.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Astoned, Astond, or Astound. ] [ See Astonish. ] To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Astonished p. pr. & vb. n. Astonishing. ] [ OE. astonien, astunian, astonen, OF. estoner, F. étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by E. stun. See Thunder, Astound, Astony. ] 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [ Fluellen had struck Pistol ]. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The very cramp-fish [ i. e., torpedo ] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Musidorus . . . had his wits astonished with sorrow. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

I, Daniel . . . was astonished at the vision. Dan. viii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To amaze; astound; overwhelm; surprise. -- Astonished, Surprised. We are surprised at what is unexpected. We are astonished at what is above or beyond our comprehension. We are taken by surprise. We are struck with astonishment. C. J. Smith. See Amaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an astonished manner. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. [ 1913 Webster ]

As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. estonnement, F. étonnement. ] 1. The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dismay; consternation. [ Archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest the place
And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The object causing such an emotion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt become an astonishment. Deut. xxviii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Amazement; wonder; surprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Astonied p. pr. & vb. n. Astonying. See Astone. ] To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

This sodeyn cas this man astonied so,
That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. baston, F. bâton, LL. basto. See Bastion, and cf. Baton, and 3d Batten. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A staff or cudgel. [ Obs. ] “To fight with blunt bastons.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) See Baton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bile + stone. ] A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope. (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Blue vitriol. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bond, n.+ stone. ] (Masonry) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga.
Syn. -- saxifrage, rockfoil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone. ] Sulphur; See Sulphur. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. [ 1913 Webster ]

From his brimstone bed at break of day
A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a building, especially a dwelling, faced with brownstone{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. bur a whetstone for scythes. ] (Min.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [ Written also burrstone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See Buhrstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Buhrstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gael. carn a cairn + gorm azure. ] (Min.) A smoky yellow or brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found especially, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Syn. -- smoky quartz. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Paleon.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mass of chalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. Isa. xxvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. small quahog larger than a littleneck.
Syn. -- cherrystone clam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a half-grown quahog.
Syn. -- cherrystone clam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Geol.) A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n. A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Clink + stone; -- from its sonorousness. ] (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cobblestone. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A stone for coping. See Coping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cobblestone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cornets-à-piston. [ F. ] (Mus.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Min.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone set along a margin as a limit and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curbstone broker. See under Broker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a stone or rock entirely composed of the mineral dolomite. Dict. Sci. Tech.
Syn. -- dolomite rock. [ PJC ]

n. The stone forming a threshold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Constructed of uncemented stone. “Dry-stone walls.” Sir W. Scott.