Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A white calcined flint, often found in connection with prehistoric remains.
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Examples
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Rain beat against the windows with such force as to drive trickles of chill water through crevices in the casements; it pooled invitingly on the milkstone windowsills and fell in cataracts to soak the carpet.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Rain beat against the windows with such force as to drive trickles of chill water through crevices in the casements; it pooled invitingly on the milkstone windowsills and fell in cataracts to soak the carpet.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922
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Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.
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Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Again, they recognised a milkstone which produced an abundant supply of milk in women if only they drank it dissolved in honey-mead.
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