stone

n. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose n. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds n. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed n. United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)