Wiktionary
a. 1 (context botany English) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf 2 (context ecology English) Of or pertaining to mesophily
a. 1 unable to move or act; inanimate. 2 sluggish or lethargic. 3 In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds. 4 Having no therapeutic action. n. (context chemistry English) A substance that does not react chemically.
adv. In a totemic manner; with regard to totems
n. Category:en:Drugs A muscle relaxant having the chemical formula C35H60N2O4, and typically administered as a bromide salt
n. The process or result of structuralize; the giving of structure to something.
n. (context computing especially in the emulation of video games English) A file that contains an emulator or virtualizer state at the moment it was saved to disk. Popular in console emulation, the file contains the contents of the memory, registers and other pertinent data that allows the user to resume the application from the moment the file was created.
n. Inability to pass through or to permit passage.
n. A fragrant substance derived from ambergris, used in the perfume industry.
n. A cochlear implant.
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse. 2 (context uncountable English) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure. 3 (context uncountable English) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. 4 (context countable English) A thing that has degenerated.
alt. The European pike. n. The European pike.
n. (eye dialect of morning English)
a. (context sports English) Involving the scoring of multiple points, especially by a particular player.
n. (context pathology English) amyloidosis of the spleen
n. A rock which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.
Usage examples of "chockstone".
This went on for about fifty feet, and then, after a rather awkward chockstone, I came to a fork.
The first trouble was a chockstone, which I managed to climb round, and then the confounded thing widened and became perpendicular.
Every breach in the stillness was perfectly clear--the steady scraping in the chimney, the fall of a fragment of rock as he surmounted the lower chockstone, the scraping again as he was forced out on to the containing wall.
At the great chockstone, which called for delicate climbing, there was a bad moment when it caught in a crevice overhead.
Then suddenly there was a chockstone, a great boulder that had rolled down the cliff and jammed in the chimney, it formed a level floor embraced on two sides by buttresses of rock, invisible from the bottom of the valley.
Andrea climbed the fifty-degree face behind the chockstone untill he found another boulder.
With immense labour I found a chockstone above my head, and managed to force my foot free.
In his haste he did not notice that the nylon line was not rewinding itself, and when the chockstone, on which he'd just put his entire weight, gave way beneath his foot, his instinctive terror was tempered by the thought that his fall would be brief.