stoneless dried dates. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : paving stone; building stone. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : stone cold. From Dictionary.com.
A gateway covered with indecipherable alien scrawl framed the stoneless section. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
Terraces were constructed 450 feet square, of huge stones which cost millions in that stoneless country. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
The berries upon old Barberry shrubs are often stoneless, and this is the best fruit for preserving or for making the jelly. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It should be observed that there is a worthless variety of plum, Kirke's stoneless, or Sans Noyau, in which the kernel is not surrounded by any bony deposit. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
I am already having a bad day .... the free market just means that predators are free to find new ways to freely (no regulation) steal from investors with no consequences .... too bad the federal prosecutors are too stoneless to invoke their bizarre "theft of honest services" charges in instances like this. From Wordnik.com. [What could go wrong? (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
The word ‘invisible’ and similar privative terms cover not only (a) what is simply without some power, but also (b) what is adapted by nature to have it but has not it or has it only in a very low degree, as when we say that a species of swallow is ‘footless’ or that a variety of fruit is ‘stoneless’. From Wordnik.com. [On the Soul] Reference
The race-course is a two-mile distance, perfectly level, on a smooth and stoneless road, and forming a complete circle -- light trotting waggons are driving about in the centre, taking it easy at sixteen miles an hour; outside are groups of "rowdies." making their hooks and looking out for greenhorns -- an article not so readily found at Long Island as at. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
The shallow water floweth o'er white and stoneless sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Do you suppose these stoneless mounds hide no dust of what were men just as good?. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
There's a brand pre-cleaned (bugless and stoneless) so I didn't have to spend time checking. From Wordnik.com. [me-ander] Reference
Vineyards abound, producing excellent stoneless grapes, which, when dried, are mostly exported to Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
Ugahden is said to be a flat grassy country, of red soil, almost stoneless, and having water everywhere near the surface. From Wordnik.com. [What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile] Reference
Along, present of the waterline are stoneless as a game kina for a demesne bsarch, so your thrasher was, incontrovertibly, fiery. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Silchester lies in a stoneless country, so that stone inscriptions would naturally be few and would easily be used up for later building. From Wordnik.com. [The Romanization of Roman Britain] Reference
And now, after our long sojourn in stoneless lands, these pebbles were a temptation, and there was a deal of surreptitious chucking-about. From Wordnik.com. [The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad] Reference
Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
And we'd love to develop a stoneless cherry or a stoneless peach, or maybe an apple that gave you all the vitamins you needed for a day, 'says Hugh. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Now on the top of the mountain was a stretch of land almost flat and stoneless, over which they cantered forward, gathering speed as the horses recovered their wind till the pace grew fast. From Wordnik.com. [The Brethren] Reference
In those days bones were not utilized: they were thrown away, and those who wanted walls in a stoneless land, where bricks and wood for palings were dear to buy, found in the skulls a useful substitute. From Wordnik.com. [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference
The master walked about gently, now stopping to read some well known inscription and ponder for a moment over the words; and now wandering across the stoneless mounds, content to be forgotten by all but those who loved the departed. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
The Tiber, pale fawn colour, flush, among greenness, receiving delicate little confluents which have come along under lush foliage; smooth dark shallow streams, stoneless on sandy bottom; one imagines each fought about in those first Roman days. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
The evolution of cultivated plants is continuing before our eyes, and the creations of Mr. Luther Burbank, such as the stoneless plum and the primus berry, the spineless cactus and the Shasta daisy, are merely striking instances of what is always going on. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Except for the occasional ridges of metamorphic rocks mentioned above, and some hills of intruded greenstone, the lower plain is stoneless, its subjacent rocks being covered with a thicker stratum of the same alluvium which is thinly spread over the higher table-land above. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
But otherwise they remained faithful to their architectural traditions, and raised in the comparatively hilly Assyria the exact type of building which nature and necessity had led them to invent and use in the flat and stoneless alluvium where they had had their primitive abode. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
In the course of his wanderings up and down the earth, he had noticed some huge stones in the garden of an old crone in Ireland; and he determined, therefore, to transport them to the stoneless waste of Salisbury Plain as being the most unlikely spot in which to find such things. From Wordnik.com. [Stonehenge Today and Yesterday] Reference
The Ionian vine which bears the little stoneless grape known in commerce as the Zante currant, has resisted almost all efforts to naturalize it elsewhere, and is scarcely grown except in two or three of the Ionian islands and in a narrow territory on the northern shores of the Morea. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
"stoneless plum and apricot"; -- as a matter of fact, pumpkins do not usually have stones. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Shami: almost stoneless like those of Maskat, they are delicately perfumed, and as large as an infant’s head. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
This watercourse, I was assured, bounded the Nogal or white stony country on the west, and divided it from the Haud or red stoneless country, which is occupied in most part by the southern Dulbahantas, who have "the finest grazing-grounds in the world, and possess incalculable numbers of camels and horses. From Wordnik.com. [What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile] Reference
It is a stoneless place. From Wordnik.com. [In Mesopotamia] Reference
The men are currently stoneless versus the US. From Wordnik.com. [BBC - Ouch] Reference
A variety of fruit is 'stoneless'. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE SOUL] Reference
A cave of pure green like stoneless fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
4 ozs--1/2 cup--110 gms--chopped stoneless dates. From Wordnik.com. [Date and Walnut Cupcakes] Reference
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