chalk-stone
(ˈtʃɔːkstəʊn)
† 1. Lime, limestone: see chalk n. 1. Obs.
† 2. ? A piece of chalk. Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 654 Goth, walkith forth, and brynge a chalk-stoon. 1611 Bible Isa. xxvii. 9 When he maketh all the stones of the Altar as chalke stones. |
3. A concretion chiefly of sodium urate, resembling chalk, occurring in the tissues and joints, esp. of the feet and hands, in severe gout. Hence ˈchalkstony a.
| 1738 Birch Milton Milton's Wks. 1738 I. 38 His Hands and Fingers gouty, and with Chalk-Stones. 1782 W. Heberden Comm. ix. (1806) 35. 1836–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 152/1 Lithic acid..is deposited in cases of chalk-stone in the textures..surrounding the joints of the fingers and toes. 1862 Sala Seven Sons II. ii. 51 His hands [were] much afflicted with chalkstones. Ibid. v. 116 Some whose hands were stiff or chalkstony. |