Word Meanings - STONECUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

• Occupation
  The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
• Stone-deaf
  As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
• Whosesoever
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• DRESSCIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• Stonegall
  See Stannel.
• DRESSCOAT
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• Stonehatch
  The ring plover, or dotterel.
• DRESSGOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• Dressing
  of Dress
• Stonebird
  The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
• Stone-hearted
  Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
• STONEBLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• 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.
• STONECOLD
  Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.
• Dress coat
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

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