water stonen.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtə stəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdər ˌstoʊn/,

/ˈwɑdər ˌstoʊn/

Forms: see water n. and stone n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., stone n.

Etymology: < water n. + stone n. Compare Middle Dutch watersteen stone basin or trough (Dutch watersteen (also) kind of whetstone (1606), any of various kinds of rock (1705)), Middle Low German waterstēn drain, gutter (carved from a piece of stone), Middle High German wazzerstein stone found in the water, pebble (German Wasserstein stone basin or trough, any of various kinds of rock (both 16th cent.)), and also Old Icelandic vatnssteinn stone font. In waterstone of the wise men (sense Phrases) after German Wasserstein der Weisen kind of philosopher's stone (1619; compare quot. 1649 at Phrases); compare Stein der Weisen philosopher's stone (see philosophers' stone n.). In sense 3 after oilstone n.

†1. A stone basin for holy water. Obsolete.

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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > holy water stoup > [noun]

water stone1379

stop1419

stockc1450

stoup1500

holy-water stock1530

font1542

holy-water stone1566

piscina1797

bénitier1853

benatura1873

1379–80 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 98 Le Waterstane pro aqua benedicta in eadem.

1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iii^v Holy waterstones also to be quite and clean taken away and the places where they were set, comelie and decentlie to be made vp with conuenient expedicion.

2. A geode whose internal cavity contains (or has contained) water.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > nodule containing water

water stone1587

1587 A. Golding in tr. Solinus Worthie Work xlix. sig. Aa (margin) The Enydros or Waterstone.

1867 R. C. Selwyn & G. F. H. Ulrich Notes Physical Geogr. Victoria 71 (note) The chalcedony of these ‘Water Stones’ has a hardness above 8, as the sharp edges scratch topaz easily.

1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 253 A great number of these water stones..were exhibited in the Intercolonial Exhibition.

1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Oct. 751/1 When a fine specimen of the Salto water-stone is held towards a good light its liquid contents are clearly revealed.

1998 M. S. Coyne et al. Nat. Resources II. 327/2 One well-known type found in Uruguay is called hydrolite, or water stone, because it contains quartz crystals left when water containing silica in solution evaporated.

3. A whetstone used with water (rather than with oil).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone

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scythe-stone1688

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Scotch stone1766

honer1780

Turkey hone1794

polishing-slate1801

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Turkey stone1816

German hone1817

Arkansas1869

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slipstone1927

1703 London Gaz. No. 3917/4 The Loading of the Dorothy,..consisting of Canary Wines, Orchilla, Rosewood, and some few Water-Stones, will be exposed to publick Sale.

1783 Eng. Pleader 74 Divers Goods and Merchandizes of very great Value; to wit, of fifteen Pipes of Wine, five hundred Pounds Weight of Cocoa-Nuts, twelve Water-Stones, and three hundred Pounds Weight of Rosewood.

1826 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 20 Dec. (advt.) Just received per schr. Fortune, from Lubec—60 pieces Water Stones 100 do Dry Stones, large and small.

1843 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 29 Dec. 1/2 (advt.) 40 tons Grind and Water Stones, assorted sizes and good quality.

1891 Daily News 24 Feb. 2/1 I sharpened the large blade on my water-stone.

1907 Biol. Bull. 13 122 These needles (No. 12 sewing needles, ground as fine as possible on a water stone) were connected with two dry battery cells.

1947 C. E. Dillon Meat Slaughtering & Processing xxxvi. 223 Skinning knives should be ground only on a fine grit water grind stone and finished on a hand water stone.

2012 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 15 Mar. d4 Using a small sharpening stone (with oil if an oilstone, with water if a water stone), rub the bevel, being careful to stay on the bevel angle.

4. Chiefly Geology. Any of various kinds of rock or mineral deposit, generally shales or sandstones, either associated with springs or seeps of water or having some other connection with water, and in some cases used locally for building. Now usually spec.: any of a series of ripple-marked siltstones and marls of Upper Triassic age occurring in parts of the Midlands in England.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > water-bearing

bibbles1747

water stone1769

aquifer1901

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > other types of building stone

rag1313

mould-stone1353

Caen-stone1421

ornel1432

Yorkshire stone1569

Portland stone1633

bluestone1709

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whitbed1812

water stone1815

cabook1834

chimney rock1847

Ham Hill stone1889

1769 S. Hales Statical Ess. 191 So the calculus may be called urine-stone; as also the incrustations from mineral and other waters may be called water-stones.

1815 W. Marshall Rev. & Compl. Abstr. Rep. to Board Agric.: Midland Dept. 108 The Derbyshire water stone has already been mentioned, among freestones, as a building material.

1821 Trans Geol. Soc. 5 514 This soft variety of grauwake slate..is commonly distinguished in Herefordshire by the name of water-stone, as it decomposes readily into a soft grey clay the surface of which is very tenacious of water.

1822 Trans. Geol. Soc. (2nd Ser.) 1 281 This shale is commonly known in the district [sc. the Forest of Dean] by the name of water-stone, in consequence of the wet soil that is found wherever it appears at the surface.

1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. ii. 54 Whinstone of different kinds, exists in every district of Dumfries-shire. There is water-stone, which dresses into a fine polish.

1846 Athenaeum 19 Sept. 967/2 A range of New Red Sandstone (bunter sandstein) capped by the ripple-marked beds denominated ‘water-stones’, in which the foot-marks of the Cheirotherium occur.

1866 H. W. Bristow Figuier's World before Deluge (new ed.) 179 The lower Keuper sandstones, which lie at the base of the series of red marls, frequently give rise to springs, and are in consequence called ‘water-stones’, in Lancashire and Cheshire.

1908 G. W. Lamplugh et al. Geol. Newark & Nottingham 44 12 ft. of flaggy sandy beds of Waterstone type are exposed.

1915 Building News & Engin. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 174/2 This evidence was to be found in the lower part of the rubble walling, which was of skerry or water-stone.

1962 A. Miller in J. B. Mitchell Great Brit.: Geogr. Ess. (1972) ii. 23 Some of the rainfall..goes to replenish the underground supplies in water-bearing strata such as the Chalk, the Greensand, the Triassic ‘waterstones’, and a number of other geological formations.

2012 M. W. Hounslow et al. in N.H. Woodcock & R. A. Strachan Geol. Hist. Brit. & Irel. (ed. 2) xvi. 317/1 In Cheshire and parts of the English Midlands, the transition between the fluvial systems and the basinal (saline or freshwater) playas dsplays mica-rich silty and sandy facies (‘Waterstones’) rich in trace fossils.

Phrases

† Alchemy. water stone of the wise men: a kind of philosophers' stone (philosophers' stone n. 1a). Obsolete. rare.From the translated title of Wasserstein der Weysen (Frankfurt, 1619), attributed to Johann Siebmacher.

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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > philosophers' stone

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adropa1550

philosophical stone1581

angelical stone1586

philosophers' stone1590

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water stone of the wise men1649

lapis1666

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > non-remedial medicine > elixirs of life

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water stone of the wise men1649

elixir of youth1725

1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xxiii. 171 Read the Water-Stone of the Wise men, which is in Print; therein is much truth.

1659 J. H[owell] (title) Paracelsus his Aurora, and Treasure of the Philosophers. As also The Water-Stone of The Wise Men; Describing the matter of and manner how to attain the universal Tincture.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	water stone
释义	water stonen. Brit. /ˈwɔːtə stəʊn/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌstoʊn/, /ˈwɑdər ˌstoʊn/ Forms: see water n. and stone n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., stone n. Etymology: < water n. + stone n. Compare Middle Dutch watersteen stone basin or trough (Dutch watersteen (also) kind of whetstone (1606), any of various kinds of rock (1705)), Middle Low German waterstēn drain, gutter (carved from a piece of stone), Middle High German wazzerstein stone found in the water, pebble (German Wasserstein stone basin or trough, any of various kinds of rock (both 16th cent.)), and also Old Icelandic vatnssteinn stone font. In waterstone of the wise men (sense Phrases) after German Wasserstein der Weisen kind of philosopher's stone (1619; compare quot. 1649 at Phrases); compare Stein der Weisen philosopher's stone (see philosophers' stone n.). In sense 3 after oilstone n. †1. A stone basin for holy water. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > holy water stoup > [noun] water stone1379 stop1419 stockc1450 stoup1500 holy-water stock1530 font1542 holy-water stone1566 piscina1797 bénitier1853 benatura1873 1379–80 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 98 Le Waterstane pro aqua benedicta in eadem. 1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iii^v Holy waterstones also to be quite and clean taken away and the places where they were set, comelie and decentlie to be made vp with conuenient expedicion. 2. A geode whose internal cavity contains (or has contained) water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > nodule containing water water stone1587 1587 A. Golding in tr. Solinus Worthie Work xlix. sig. Aa (margin) The Enydros or Waterstone. 1867 R. C. Selwyn & G. F. H. Ulrich Notes Physical Geogr. Victoria 71 (note) The chalcedony of these ‘Water Stones’ has a hardness above 8, as the sharp edges scratch topaz easily. 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 253 A great number of these water stones..were exhibited in the Intercolonial Exhibition. 1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Oct. 751/1 When a fine specimen of the Salto water-stone is held towards a good light its liquid contents are clearly revealed. 1998 M. S. Coyne et al. Nat. Resources II. 327/2 One well-known type found in Uruguay is called hydrolite, or water stone, because it contains quartz crystals left when water containing silica in solution evaporated. 3. A whetstone used with water (rather than with oil). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone whetstonec725 hone-stone1393 filourc1400 hone1440 rub1502 rubber1553 knife-stone1571 stone1578 oilstone1585 block1592 oil whetstone1601 greenstone1668 scythe-stone1688 water stone1703 sharping-stone1714 Scotch stone1766 honer1780 Turkey hone1794 polishing-slate1801 burr1816 Turkey stone1816 German hone1817 Arkansas1869 rag1877 rock1889 slipstone1927 1703 London Gaz. No. 3917/4 The Loading of the Dorothy,..consisting of Canary Wines, Orchilla, Rosewood, and some few Water-Stones, will be exposed to publick Sale. 1783 Eng. Pleader 74 Divers Goods and Merchandizes of very great Value; to wit, of fifteen Pipes of Wine, five hundred Pounds Weight of Cocoa-Nuts, twelve Water-Stones, and three hundred Pounds Weight of Rosewood. 1826 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 20 Dec. (advt.) Just received per schr. Fortune, from Lubec—60 pieces Water Stones 100 do Dry Stones, large and small. 1843 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 29 Dec. 1/2 (advt.) 40 tons Grind and Water Stones, assorted sizes and good quality. 1891 Daily News 24 Feb. 2/1 I sharpened the large blade on my water-stone. 1907 Biol. Bull. 13 122 These needles (No. 12 sewing needles, ground as fine as possible on a water stone) were connected with two dry battery cells. 1947 C. E. Dillon Meat Slaughtering & Processing xxxvi. 223 Skinning knives should be ground only on a fine grit water grind stone and finished on a hand water stone. 2012 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 15 Mar. d4 Using a small sharpening stone (with oil if an oilstone, with water if a water stone), rub the bevel, being careful to stay on the bevel angle. 4. Chiefly Geology. Any of various kinds of rock or mineral deposit, generally shales or sandstones, either associated with springs or seeps of water or having some other connection with water, and in some cases used locally for building. Now usually spec.: any of a series of ripple-marked siltstones and marls of Upper Triassic age occurring in parts of the Midlands in England. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > water-bearing bibbles1747 water stone1769 aquifer1901 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > other types of building stone rag1313 mould-stone1353 Caen-stone1421 ornel1432 Yorkshire stone1569 Portland stone1633 bluestone1709 fieldstone1797 whitbed1812 water stone1815 cabook1834 chimney rock1847 Ham Hill stone1889 1769 S. Hales Statical Ess. 191 So the calculus may be called urine-stone; as also the incrustations from mineral and other waters may be called water-stones. 1815 W. Marshall Rev. & Compl. Abstr. Rep. to Board Agric.: Midland Dept. 108 The Derbyshire water stone has already been mentioned, among freestones, as a building material. 1821 Trans Geol. Soc. 5 514 This soft variety of grauwake slate..is commonly distinguished in Herefordshire by the name of water-stone, as it decomposes readily into a soft grey clay the surface of which is very tenacious of water. 1822 Trans. Geol. Soc. (2nd Ser.) 1 281 This shale is commonly known in the district [sc. the Forest of Dean] by the name of water-stone, in consequence of the wet soil that is found wherever it appears at the surface. 1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. ii. 54 Whinstone of different kinds, exists in every district of Dumfries-shire. There is water-stone, which dresses into a fine polish. 1846 Athenaeum 19 Sept. 967/2 A range of New Red Sandstone (bunter sandstein) capped by the ripple-marked beds denominated ‘water-stones’, in which the foot-marks of the Cheirotherium occur. 1866 H. W. Bristow Figuier's World before Deluge (new ed.) 179 The lower Keuper sandstones, which lie at the base of the series of red marls, frequently give rise to springs, and are in consequence called ‘water-stones’, in Lancashire and Cheshire. 1908 G. W. Lamplugh et al. Geol. Newark & Nottingham 44 12 ft. of flaggy sandy beds of Waterstone type are exposed. 1915 Building News & Engin. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 174/2 This evidence was to be found in the lower part of the rubble walling, which was of skerry or water-stone. 1962 A. Miller in J. B. Mitchell Great Brit.: Geogr. Ess. (1972) ii. 23 Some of the rainfall..goes to replenish the underground supplies in water-bearing strata such as the Chalk, the Greensand, the Triassic ‘waterstones’, and a number of other geological formations. 2012 M. W. Hounslow et al. in N.H. Woodcock & R. A. Strachan Geol. Hist. Brit. & Irel. (ed. 2) xvi. 317/1 In Cheshire and parts of the English Midlands, the transition between the fluvial systems and the basinal (saline or freshwater) playas dsplays mica-rich silty and sandy facies (‘Waterstones’) rich in trace fossils. Phrases † Alchemy. water stone of the wise men: a kind of philosophers' stone (philosophers' stone n. 1a). Obsolete. rare.From the translated title of Wasserstein der Weysen (Frankfurt, 1619), attributed to Johann Siebmacher. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > philosophers' stone stone1390 minerala1393 ferment1471 egg of philosophersc1484 adropa1550 philosophical stone1581 angelical stone1586 philosophers' stone1590 philosophers' work1612 philosophic stone1647 water stone of the wise men1649 lapis1666 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > non-remedial medicine > elixirs of life stone1390 philosophers' stonea1393 vegetativec1450 ferment1471 egg of philosophersc1484 vegetable stonea1500 vegetant stone1576 philosophical stone1581 elixir1605 philosophers' work1612 philosophic stone1647 water stone of the wise men1649 elixir of youth1725 1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xxiii. 171 Read the Water-Stone of the Wise men, which is in Print; therein is much truth. 1659 J. H[owell] (title) Paracelsus his Aurora, and Treasure of the Philosophers. As also The Water-Stone of The Wise Men; Describing the matter of and manner how to attain the universal Tincture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1379
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