Lapidate: alternatives and connections

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, a…

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having ex…

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argill…

A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.

A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross…

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

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

Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record.

Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. Th…