Word Meanings - CROWSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The top stone of the gable end of a house.

• Stonegall
  See Stannel.
• STONECOLD
  Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.
• Stonehatch
  The ring plover, or dotterel.
• STONEDEAD
  As dead as a stone.
• Houseleek
  A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.
• Houseless
  Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
• Stonebird
  The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
• Stone-hearted
  Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
• STONEDEAF
  As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
• Houselessness
  The state of being houseless.
• Stone-blind
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• Stonehenge
  An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
• STONEHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
• Houseline
  A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.
• Stonebow
  A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

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