Chalkstone
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A mass or piece of chalk. obsolete
"[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 deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout wordnet
- 3 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."
Synonyms
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More examples"[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."
Etymology
From Old English ċealcstān, equivalent to chalk + stone.
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