Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sulphate of copper, or blue vitriol. Also called blue copperas.
  • noun A name given to a more or less argillaceous sandstone of bluish color, extensively quarried at various points along the Hudson river, and used for building purposes and for flagging.

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Examples

  • Robert Manela This room off the den has blue-stone flooring and a lot of light.

    A Home with Resort Grounds Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

  • The reports also contained fleeting references to the victims' humanity: Roll's black leather jacket and a gold ring - apparently his wedding band - on his left hand, for example, and Green's blue-stone earrings in her pierced ears.

    Three slain in Tucson rampage were shot in head 2011

  • Dyleroy looks at the blue-stone tiles of the floor.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • Though the Matriarch does not move, the blade of blue crystal flickers, and the point and top third of the silver blade fall to the blue-stone floor.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • It was then that I caught the flash of the blue-stone ring he wore, answering my question as to whether it was me in particular who had been sought, here, tonight.

    Blood of Amber Zelazny, Roger 1986

  • "I don't have anybody on a blue-stone detail after Merle now."

    Blood of Amber Zelazny, Roger 1986

  • The desk clerk also gave me a blue-stone ring Luke had left behind, and I took it with me to return when I saw him.

    Blood of Amber Zelazny, Roger 1986

  • In the centre of the platform, a stairway of blue-stone curved upwards and disappeared into a circular aperture.

    The Bane of the Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • In the centre of the platform, a stairway of blue-stone curved upwards and disappeared into a circular aperture.

    The Bane of The Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • The house and barn both belonged to Aunt Stanshy, property that had been willed her by her father, Solomon Macomber, whose body slept under the wings of a blue-stone cherub in the cemetery.

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