chalkstone

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A mass or piece of chalk.

   “[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. isim 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.”