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chalk-stone|ˈtʃɔːkstəʊn|
†1. Lime, limestone: see chalk n. 1. Obs.
†2. ? A piece of chalk. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 654 Goth, walkith forth, and brynge a chalk-stoon. 1611Bible Isa. xxvii. 9 When he maketh all the stones of the Altar as chalke stones.
3. A concretion chiefly of sodium urate, resembling chalk, occurring in the tissues and joints, esp. of the feet and hands, in severe gout. Hence ˈchalkstony a.
1738Birch Milton Milton's Wks. 1738 I. 38 His Hands and Fingers gouty, and with Chalk-Stones. 1782W. Heberden Comm. ix. (1806) 35. 1836–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 152/1 Lithic acid..is deposited in cases of chalk-stone in the textures..surrounding the joints of the fingers and toes. 1862Sala Seven Sons II. ii. 51 His hands [were] much afflicted with chalkstones. Ibid. v. 116 Some whose hands were stiff or chalkstony. |