Meaning of दगड in English
- A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
- Characterized by bowlders.
- Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
- A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
- A grappling; close fight or embrace.
- A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- A cleft or division.
- To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
- A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.
- To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.
- Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.
- Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.
- Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.
- Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
- A precious stone; a gem.
- Something made of stone. Specifically: -
- The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
- A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
- One of the testes; a testicle.
- The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
- A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
- Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
- A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
- To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
- To make like stone; to harden.
- To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
- A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
- The ring plover, or dotterel.
- One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
- One who walls with stones.
- A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
- Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
- Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
- Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
- Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
- Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
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