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Stone
- adjective - a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
- kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
- of any of various dull tannis
Stony
- adjective - abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
- hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
Stood
- verb -
- be available for stud services; "male domestic animals such as stallions serve selected females"
- be in effect; be or remain in force; "The law stands!"
- be in some specified state or condition; "I stand corrected"
- be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!"
- be tall; have a height of; copula; "She stands 6 feet tall"
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue; "Where do you stand on the War?"
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright; "I am standing my ground and won't give in!"
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically; "We stand on common ground"
- put into an upright position; "Can you stand the bookshelf up?"
- remain inactive or immobile; "standing water"
- Treated to, e.g. he stood me a beer.
- withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend a
Stook
- - A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
Stool
- noun - (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a simple seat without a back or arms
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Stoop
- noun - an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- basin for holy water
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
- deign
- descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
- sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
- small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
Stoor
- - To rise in clouds, as dust.
Stope
- - A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.