Meaning of chalkstone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mass or piece of chalk.
   obsolete
2. A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.

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Examples

“[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.”

“[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.”

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