toadstone
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of toadstone
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Popular names for them are "whinstone," "greenstone," "toadstone" and "trap."
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Friar John singled him out of the whole knot of these rogues in grain, a red-snouted catchpole, who upon his right thumb wore a thick broad silver hoop, wherein was set a good large toadstone.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical finger a pretty handsome golden ring, whereinto was right artificially enchased a precious toadstone of Beausse.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
"A toadstone, I suppose?" replied Sir Ronald, lightly.
From Heiress of Haddon by William E. Doubleday
Dr. Clarke noticed among the pebbles near the Lake of Tiberias pieces of a porous rock resembling the substance called toadstone in England; its cavities were filled with zeolite.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell
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