Meaning of రాయి in English

A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
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.