building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru |
a lack of feeling or expression or movement | crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions |
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | |
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | |
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds | |
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | |
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | |