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Definition of Stonelike
1. Adjective. (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness.
Definition of Stonelike
1. Adjective. Resembling stone or a stone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonelike
Literary usage of Stonelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"It is cased with a stonelike composition, and has a very handsome corridore
arranged as a greenhouse, connecting it with the ..."
2. Tile Drainage: An Explanation of how and why Tile Will Benefit a Large by James A. King, Mason City Brick and Tile Co (1918)
"The other is made from the stonelike shales, or clay in a natural condition which
resembles rock. The shales are finer grained than are the surface clays. ..."
3. Dictionary of Scientific Illustrations and Symbols: Moral Truths Mirrored in (1894)
"It actually covers over everything with a, coating of stonelike material, which
of course takes the form of the objects which it ..."
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