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stone
A	noun
	1	stone
			building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚building material ╚stone ╚springer; impost ╚paving stone ╚monolith ╚millstone ╚hearthstone ╚grindstone ╚gravestone; headstone; tombstone ╚foundation stone ╚cornerstone ╚cornerstone ╚capstone; copestone; coping stone; stretcher ╚Blarney Stone ╚ashlar
	2	stone
			a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚trait ╚unemotionality; emotionlessness ╚coldness; coolness; frigidity ╚stone
	3	rock, stone
			a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚natural object ╚rock, stone ╚sill ╚petrifaction ╚pebble ╚outcrop; outcropping; rock outcrop ╚intrusion ╚crystal; crystallization ╚clastic rock ╚chondrite ╚calculus; concretion ╚boulder; bowlder ╚bedrock ╚achondrite
	4	Stone, Edward Durell Stone
			United States architect (1902-1978)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚creator ╚architect; designer ╚Stone, Edward Durell Stone
	5	Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
			United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚expert ╚jurist; legal expert ╚Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
	6	Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
			United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚communicator ╚writer; author ╚journalist ╚Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
	7	Stone, Lucy Stone
			United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚disputant; controversialist; eristic ╚reformer; reformist; crusader; meliorist ╚feminist; women's rightist; women's liberationist; libber ╚Stone, Lucy Stone
	8	Stone, Oliver Stone
			United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚creator ╚producer ╚film maker; filmmaker; film producer; movie maker ╚Stone, Oliver Stone
	9	stone, pit, endocarp
			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"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚natural object ╚covering; natural covering; cover ╚pericarp; seed vessel ╚stone, pit, endocarp ╚cherry stone ╚peach pit
	10	stone
			an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚definite quantity ╚unit of measurement; unit ╚mass unit ╚avoirdupois unit ╚stone
	11	rock, stone
			material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚material; stuff ╚rock, stone ╚aphanite ╚pumice; pumice stone ╚shingling ╚caliche ╚gravel; crushed rock ╚metamorphic rock ╚sima ╚sial ╚sedimentary rock ╚road metal ╚quartzite
	12	gem, gemstone, stone
			a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚solid ╚crystal ╚gem, gemstone, stone ╚transparent gem ╚opaque gem ╚cabochon
B	verb
	1	pit, stone
			remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
		Category Tree: remove; take; take away; withdraw ╚pit, stone
	2	stone, lapidate
			kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
		Category Tree: kill ╚stone, lapidate
C	adjective
	1	stone
			of any of various dull tannish-gray colors

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