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chalkstone

noun

Etymology

From Old English ċealcstān, equivalent to chalk + stone.

  1. inherited from ċealcstān

Definitions

  1. A mass or piece of chalk.

    • [W]hen he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

  2. A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected…

    A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.

    • [T]he thoughts of his breeding Gout so fast shocks me: it has beside all the rest made a Deposit in the Great Toe—I mean in the Joint, as if intending a Chalkstone.

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Derived

chalkstony

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chalkstone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA