Lithic: 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…

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive.

Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture.

(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)

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…

(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.

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.

Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean arc…

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.

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, l…