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stone

adjective
  1. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
noun
  1. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
    “I wanted a special stone to mark the site.”
  2. a lack of feeling or expression or movement
    “You'd have to have a heart of stone to ignore the display of adoptable puppies.”
  3. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
    rock
  4. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
    “you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking”
    pitendocarp
  5. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body
  6. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
    rock
  7. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
    gemgemstone
verb
  1. remove the pits from
    pit
  2. kill by throwing stones at
    “People wanted to stone the child's parents for living out of wedlock.”
    lapidate