Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a concretion, for the most part of sodium urate, deposited in the tissues and joints, especially of the ears, hands, and feet, of persons affected with gout.
- noun A lump of chalk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mass of chalk.
- noun (Med.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mass ofchalk . - noun medicine A
chalk -likeconcretion , consisting mainly ofurate ofsodium , found in those affected withgout ; atophus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout
Etymologies
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Examples
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Extrication required amputation — Mr. Ralston 's left-handed severing of his right forearm, which was pinned between a chalkstone boulder and the canyon wall.
Dark Joe Morgenstern 2010
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The building is constructed of basalt and chalkstone and made use of elements from an earlier structure on the site.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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The building is constructed of basalt and chalkstone and made use of elements from an earlier structure on the site.
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And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop.
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I down climbed off the main, top chalk stone, stood on the intermediate chalkstone and, at that point, saw that there was some good hand holds around the back side of the chalkstone.
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And as I put a rotating torque force on that intermediate chalkstone that's the one that rotated.
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With a piece of chalkstone picked from the rubble, I marked my path; but that was well-nigh the last glimmer of ordinary human sense in me, as I drew kilometer by kilometer near to my finality.
The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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With a piece of chalkstone picked from the rubble, I marked my path; but that was well-nigh the last glimmer of ordinary human sense in me, as I drew kilometer by kilometer near to my finality.
The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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The white chalkstone glitters from afar; the light grey feldspar assumes a warm flesh tint; the limestone becomes straw color; the crystals of hornblende flash like fire-flies; and the veins of white quartz, running with their nodules of serpentine and chlorite through the dark clay-slate, gleam as do chain lightnings through the clouds.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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A monumental effigy was also erected to him, "made of white chalkstone"; and this is almost certainly the figure now placed
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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