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n. [ See Acetic. ] (Chem.) A volatile liquid (CH3.CO.CH3); pyroacetic spirit; methyl ketone; -- obtained by fermentation, the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime. It is commonly used as a solvent. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The term was once also applied to a number of bodies of similar constitution, more frequently called ketones. See Ketone. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

(Min.) A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Named from the river Amazon. ] (Min.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + E. peptone. ] (Physiol.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Astoned, Astond, or Astound. ] [ See Astonish. ] To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Atoned p. pr. & vb. n. Atoning. ] [ From at one, i. e., to be, or cause to be, at one. See At one. ] 1. To agree; to be in accordance; to accord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He and Aufidius can no more atone
Than violentest contrariety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I would do much
To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite in making. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The four elements . . . have atoned
A noble league. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make satisfaction for; to expiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or each atone his guilty love with life. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Literally, a setting at one.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. v. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

He desires to make atonement
Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Day of Atonement (Jewish Antiq.), the only fast day of the Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), according to the rites described in Leviticus xvi. Also called Yom Kippur. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who makes atonement. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See At one. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. See At one. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Barytone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. bary`tonos; bary`s heavy + to`nos tone. ] 1. (Mus.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Greek Gram.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ F. baryton: cf. It. baritono. ] 1. (Mus.) (a) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. (b) A person having a voice of such range. (c) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Greek Gram.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bile + stone. ] A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope. (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Blue vitriol. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bond, n.+ stone. ] (Masonry) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. boutonné, fr. boutonner to bud, button. ] (Her.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga.
Syn. -- saxifrage, rockfoil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone. ] Sulphur; See Sulphur. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. [ 1913 Webster ]

From his brimstone bed at break of day
A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a building, especially a dwelling, faced with brownstone{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. bur a whetstone for scythes. ] (Min.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [ Written also burrstone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See Buhrstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Buhrstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. furnished with buttons or something buttonlike. Opposite of unbuttoned. [ Narrower terms: botonee, botonnee; button-down; closed ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. conservatively formal and businesslike in dress and manner.
Syn. -- button-down, conservative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business. Newsweek

adj. 1. taciturn. Opposite of voluble. [ British colloquial ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. conservative in professional manner; as, employers are looking for buttoned-up types. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gael. carn a cairn + gorm azure. ] (Min.) A smoky yellow or brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found especially, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Syn. -- smoky quartz. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. (Her.) Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mass of chalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. Isa. xxvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. small quahog larger than a littleneck.
Syn. -- cherrystone clam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a half-grown quahog.
Syn. -- cherrystone clam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Geol.) A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n. A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Clink + stone; -- from its sonorousness. ] (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cobblestone. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A stone for coping. See Coping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cobblestone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small. [ 1913 Webster ]