Word Meanings - HEADSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

• Stonebow
  A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
• Stone-horse
  Stallion.
• STONECOLD
  Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.
• Cornering
  of Corner
• Stonebrash
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• STONEDEAD
  As dead as a stone.
• Cornercap
  The chief ornament.
• Stonebrearer
  A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
• Stoneroot
  A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• STONEDEAF
  As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
• Cornerwise
  With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
• Stonebuck
  See Steinbock.
• Stonerunner
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.
• STONEHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
• Chief baron
  The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
• Foundation
  The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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