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Stone"bird` (?), n. The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See
Tattler, 2. [Local, U.S.]
Stone"-blind` (?), a. As blind as a stone; completely blind.
Stone"bow` (?), n. A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting
stones. Shak.
Stone"brash` (?), n. A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken
rock; brash.
Stone"brear`er (?), n. A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Knight.
Stone"buck` (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Steinbock.
Stone"chat` (?), n. [Stone + chat.] [So called from the similarity of
its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.] (Zoöl.) (a) A
small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola
rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter,
stoneclink, stonesmith. (b) The wheatear. (c) The blue titmouse.
The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola,
Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India
(Saxicola picata).
Stone"-cold` (?), a. Cold as a stone.
Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame.
Fairfax.
Stone"cray` (?), n. [Stone + F. craie chalk, L. creta.] A distemper in
hawks.
Stone"crop` (?), n. [AS. stncropp.] 1. A sort of tree. [Obs.] Mortimer.
2. (Bot.) 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 (Penthorum sedoides).
Stone"cut`ter (?), n. One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a
machine for dressing stone.
Stone"cut`ting (?), n. Hewing or dressing stone.
Stone"-dead` (?), a. As dead as a stone.
Stone"-deaf` (?), a. As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
Stone"gall` (?), n. [Cf. D. steengal, G. steingall. See Stannel.]
(Zoöl.) See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]