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thered; hairy, grey, with testaceous thighs. The proboscis 
is black, a little testaceous at the base 5 the head is white, 
with a testaceous line on the front; the Wings are whitish; 
the legs black, with rufous thighs.—It is found in Germany. 
3. Stomoxys siberita.—Antennae feathered; hairy, grey ; 
sides of the abdomen pale diaphanous. Orbits snowy; legs 
black, with pale thighs.—It inhabits Germany. 
4. Stomoxys calcitrans.—Antennae slightly feathered; grey, 
with black legs. This very much resembles the common 
fly, and is the insect which buzzes about the legs of cattle, 
making them continually stamp with the feet, and which 
stings our legs in autumn. 
5. Stomoxystessellata.—'Hairy, cinereous; abdomen grey, 
tessellate with brown.—It inhabits Kiel, and is larger than 
She stomoxys irritans, next to be described. 
6 . Sotomoxys irritans.—Cinereous, slightly hairy; abdo¬ 
men spotted with black.—This is found in many parts of 
Europe, as well as in our own country, and is extremely 
troublesome on the backs of cattle. 
7 . Stomoxys muscaria.—Antennae slightly feathered; 
hairy, black; abdomen paler, with deep black bands. The 
segments of the abdomen are black at the base; the wings 
are white.—This is found in Denmark. 
8 . Stomoxys dorsalis.—Black; abdomen-snowy on the 
back, with three pair of black dots.—It inhabits France, and 
is small. 
9. Stomoxys longipes—Orbits white; thorax grey ; 
abdomen grey-brown ; legs ferruginous, black at the ends. 
II. Sheath covering the mouth, with five bristles. 
10. Stomoxys rostrata.—Thorax with obscure lines; pro¬ 
boscis, abdomen, and legs, testaceous. It resembles the 
common fly, and is very troublesome to cattle. 
11. Stomoxys lineata.—Thorax black, with four white 
lines ; abdomen black, with three lateral yellow spots, and 
tail. The proboscis is yellow, the tip emarginate and black. 
—It is found in Germany. 
12. Stomoxys musciformis.—Thorax brown, with four 
whitish lines; abdomen black, with three pair of white 
lunules. The antennae are black, with a broad compressed 
ferruginous club; the mouth -is hairy ; the head is brown ; 
the tail is blueish; legs yellow, spotted with black.—This is 
also found in Germany. 
STOMPWYK, a large village of Holland, near Gouda, 
with 1900 inhabitants. 
STONAGE, a hamlet in the parish of Tickenham, Somer¬ 
setshire. 
STONAR, a parish in Kent, near Sandwich, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of which are some valuable salt-works. 
STOND, s. Post; station. Obsolete. 
On the other side, the assieged castle’s ward 
Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain. Spenser. 
Stop ; indisposition to proceed.—There be not stonds nor 
restiveness in a man’s nature; but the wheels of his mind 
keep way with the wheels of his fortune. Bacons. 
STONDON, Massey or Marci, a parish in Essex; 
2 miles south-east of Chipping Ongar. 
STONDON, Nether, a hamlet in Bedfordshire; 4| 
miles north-by-east of Silsoe. 
STONDON, Upper, a parish in the above county; 4f 
miles east of Silsoe. 
STONE, s. [stains. Gothic; ptan, Sax. ; steen, Dutch.] 
Stones are bodies insipid, hard, not ductile or malleable, nor 
soluble in water. Woodward.—Stones are, the softer and 
the harder. Of the softer stones are, 1. The foliaceous or 
flaky, as talc. 2. The fibrose, as the asbestus. 3. The gra¬ 
nulated, as the gypsum. Of the harder stones are, 1. The 
opake stones, as hmestpne. 2. The semi-pellucid, as agate. 
3. The pellucid, as crystal and the gems. Hill. 
Relentless time, destroying power. 
Whom stone and brass obey. Parnel. 
Piece of stone cut for building. 
Should I go to church, and see the holy edifice of stone. 
And not bethink me strait of dang’rous rocks! Shakspcare. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1594. 
Gem; precious stone. 
I thought I saw 
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl. 
Inestimable stones , unvalu’d jewels. Shahspeare 
Any thing made of stone. 
Lend me a looking-glass ; 
If that her breath will mist or stain the stone. 
Why then she lives. Shahspeare. 
Calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the dis¬ 
ease arising from a calculus.—A specific remedy for prevent¬ 
ing of the stone I take to be the constant use of alehoof-ale. 
Temple. —The case which in some fruits contains the seed, 
and is itself contained in the fruit.—To make fruits without 
core or stone is a curiosity. Bacon.—' Testicle.—A weight 
containing fourteen pounds. A stone of meat is eight pounds. 
—Does Wood think that we will sell him a stone of wool for 
his counters ? Swift. —A funeral monument. 
Should some relenting eye 
Glance on the stone where our cold reliques lie. Pope. 
It is taken for a state of torpidness and insensibility.—I 
have not yet forgot myself to stone. Pope. 
Stone is used by way of exaggeration. 
What need you be so boist’rous rough ? 
I will no struggle, I will stand stone still. Shahspeare. 
To leave no Stone unturned. To do every thing that 
can be done for the production or promotion of any effect. 
He crimes invented, left unturn'd no stone 
To make my guilt appear, and hide his own. Dry den. 
STONE, adj. Made of stone. 
Present her at the leet. 
Because she bought stone jugs, and no sealed quarts. 
Shahspeare. 
To Stone, v. a. [fCaenan, Sax.] To pelt or beat or 
kill with stones.—Crucifixion was a punishment unknown to 
the Jewish laws, among whom the stoning to death was the 
punishment for blasphemy. Stephens. —To harden. 
Oh perjur’d woman ! thou do’st stone my heart; 
And mak’st me call what I intend to do, 
A murder, which I thought a sacrifice. Shahspeare. 
To remove stones.—As the stones were laid together in 
the wall for defence ; so they were gathered off from the soil, 
to avoid offence. But to what purpose is the fruitfulness, 
fencing, stoning, if the ground yield a plentiful crop of 
briers, thistles, weeds? Bp. Hall. 
STONE (Edmund), a famous Scotch mathematician, 
was the son of the Duke of Argyle’s gardener, and 
probably born in the shire of Argyle, about the begin¬ 
ning of the last or end of the preceding century. He was 
eight years old when he began to read, but afterwards he 
made very rapid progress by his own almost unrivalled 
efforts. Before he attained the age of eighteen years, he had 
acquired a knowledge of the most sublime geometry and 
analysis without a master. When he was asked by the Duke 
of Argyle, how he had gained tiiis knowledge, he replied, 
“ I first learned to read; and the masons being at work on 
your house, I saw that the architect used a rule and com¬ 
passes, and that he made calculations. Upon inquiry into 
the use of these things, I was informed there was a science 
named arithmetic; 1 purchased a book of arithmetic, and I 
learned it. I was told there was another science called geo¬ 
metry, and I learned that also. Finding that there were 
good books on these two sciences in Latin, I bought a dic¬ 
tionary, and learned Latin. I also understood there were 
good books of the same kind in French, and I learned 
French. This, my lord, is what I have done; and it seems 
to me, that we may learn every thing when we know the 
twenty-four letters of the alphabet.” The Duke, pleased with 
this simple answer, drew Stone out of obscurity, and pro¬ 
vided for him an employment which allowed of his favourite 
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