Crossword clues for bluestone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluestone \Blue"stone`\, n.
Blue vitriol.
--Dunglison.A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK English) A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken. 2 (context UK English) Any of several massive stones used to construct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge. 3 (context US English) A feldspathic sandstone in the U.S. 4 (context US English) A form of limestone native to the Shenandoah Valley 5 (context Australia English) A basalt or olivine basalt. 6 (context Australia South Australia English) slate from quarries in or near Adelaide.
WordNet
n. bluish-gray sandstone used for paving and building
Wikipedia
Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of dimension or building stone varieties, including:
- basalt in Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand;
- the dolerite of Stonehenge in Britain;
- a feldspathic sandstone in the U.S. and Canada;
- limestone in the Shenandoah Valley in the USA, from the Hainaut quarries in Soignies, Belgium and from quarries in County Carlow, County Galway and County Kilkenny in Ireland; and
- slate in South Australia
Bluestone or blue stone may refer to:
Usage examples of "bluestone".
The saddening may be and is commonly done in the same bath, that is, after the wool has been stuffed it is lifted, the mordant--copperas, bluestone, bichrome, or alum--is added, and the wool is re-entered into the bath.
This method can be carried out in, for instance, dyeing a cochineal scarlet with tin crystals, a yellow from fustic and alum, a black from logwood and copperas and bluestone, a red from madder and bichrome, and the dyeing of the Alizarine colours by the use of chrome fluoride, etc.
For dyeing with logwood and copperas or bluestone the process is not a good one, as it does not give as full shades as by the ordinary process.
Martin, in despair, has taken to horse-doctoring his yaws with bluestone and to blessing the Solomons.
The overlay of red-gold designs was organically wedded to the bluestone cermalloy underneath, seamlessly bonded.
A lean gray roadster whispered into the Hazeltine crushed bluestone driveway like a monster lizard with incandescent eyes.
Most of its spirits was made on the premises from bush recipes, of which bluestone and tobacco were the chief ingredients.
It took no time for Karen to cross from one yard to the next and hook onto the bluestones that led to the back door.
Now the secondary ring of bluestones were dragged well over two hundred miles from the Prescelly Mountains!
It was thick and wickedly blue, for it had been mixed with bluestone to preserve it until required by the billposters.
He even opened the casket himself, to show her bluestones, generally proffered for minor contracts, but to compound that insult, the jewels had apparently been cut and polished by a rank apprentice and were set in poorly etched platinum.
He didn't even see the roughhewn bluestones that he had placed as a path around the house.
He even openedthe casket himself, to show her bluestones, generally proffered for minorcontracts, but to compound that insult, the jewels had apparently been cutand polished by a rank apprentice and were set in poorly etched platinum.
Within stood the taller horseshoe shape, five great double uprights with capstones, and the scores of smaller bluestones.
Flowed, and touched archway, trilothons, sarsen stone, slaughter stone, lintels, bluestone horseshoe.