building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface |
a lack of feeling or expression or movement | the formative tissue at the base of a nail |
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded |
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | (mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules |
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds | an enclosure within which something originates or develops |
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | (geology) a mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded |
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | |