chalkstone

English

Etymology

chalk +‎ stone

Noun

chalkstone (plural chalkstones)

  1. A mass of chalk.
    • Bible, Isa. xxvii
      as chalkstones […] beaten in sunder
  2. (medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chalkstone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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