(stōn) noun
1. A small piece of rock, as a cobble or pebble.
2. Rock, or a piece of rock hewn or shaped; a milestone; a gravestone; hard, concreted mineral or earthy matter.
3. A precious stone; gem.
4. Anything resembling a stone in shape or hardness: a hailstone.
5. Pathol. A stony concretion in the bladder, or a disease characterized by such concretions.
6. Bot. The hard covering of the kernel in a fruit.
7. (plural stone) Brit. A measure of weight, avoirdupois, usually 14 pounds.
8. A testicle: usually in the plural.
9. Printing An imposing table for type, whether made of stone or metal.
—adjective
1. Made of stone: a stone ax.
2. Made of coarse hard earthenware: a stone bottle.
3. Characterized by the use of stone implements: the Stone Age.
—v.t. stoned, ston·ing
1. To hurl stones at; pelt or kill with stones.
2. To remove the stones or pits from.
3. To furnish or line, as a well, with stone.
4. To castrate; geld, as a hog.
5. Obs. To make hard or unyielding, as the heart. [OE stān]
—ston′er noun

(stōn), Harlan Fiske,
1872–1946, U.S. educator; Supreme Court justice 1941–46.
—Lucy,
1818–93, U.S. suffragist: wife of Henry Broun Blackwell.