toadstonen.¹

Brit.

/ˈtəʊdstəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈtoʊdˌstoʊn/

Etymology: < toad n. + stone n.

A name (rendering Greek and Latin batrachītēs, or medieval Latin bufonītēs, crapodīnus, French crapaudine (13th cent.): cf. German krötenstein), formerly applied to various stones or stone-like objects, likened to a toad in colour or shape, or supposed to be produced by a toad; often credited with alexipharmic or therapeutic virtues, and worn as jewels or amulets, or set in rings. These, though of various origin, were all considered to be forms or species of the same ‘stone’, the most valued kind of which was fabled to be found in the head of the toad, a belief to which many allusions occur in literature: cf. quot. a1616 at toad n. 1aδ. .

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > occult medicine

toadstone1558

erne-stone1587

amulet1718

amuletic1753

muti1860

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > stones associated with animals > [noun] > toad-stone

crapauteea1440

crapaudc1440

paddock-stone1488

grapoud?a1500

crapaudine1558

toadstone1558

crawpock1584

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > occult medicine > amulet against disease or to aid healing > stone

achatea1398

aetitesa1500

toadstone1558

erne-stone1587

1558 Gifts to Q. Eliz. in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth II. 539 A iewell containing a Crapon or Toade stone set in golde.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. v. sig. E4 His saffron iewell, with the toade-stone in 't.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 63 As for that..styled a Toadstone; this is properly a tooth of the Fish called Lupus marinus, as hath been made evident to the Royal Society by..Dr. Merit.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 128 By my Bufonites or Toad-stone, I intend not that shining polish'd stone,..but a certain reddish liver-colour'd real stone.

1679 London Gaz. No. 1435/4 One gold Ring with a large counterfeited Toad stone.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 398 A Montebank..taking of a Ring..which seemd set with a dull darke stone a little swelling out, like what we call (though untruely) a Toad-stone, wetting his finger a little in his mouth, & but touching it, it conceiv'd a luculent flame.

1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 199 These convex osseous Tubercules..are of the same kind with our English Bufonites or Toadstones.

1704 tr. P. Baldæus True Descr. Malabar & Coromandel in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 658/1 The Toad-stone is found in the Head of a certain kind of Toads.

1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iii. 16 It was distinguished by the name of the Reptile, and called the Toad-Stone, Bufonites, Crapaudine, Krottenstein; but all its fancied powers vanished on the discovery of its being nothing but the fossil tooth of the sea-wolf.

1812 W. Scott Let. 4 Apr. (1932) II. 102 A toadstone, a celebrated amulet... It was sovereign for protecting new born children and their mothers from the power of the fairies and has been repeatedly borrowd from my mother on account of this virtue.

1870 Handbk. Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, & Cambs. (John Murray) 291 At the feet [of an image of the Virgin] was a toadstone, indicating her victory over all evil and uncleanness.

attributive.1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance xxvi Toad~stone ring.1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 156 A toadstone ring (the fossil palatal tooth of a species of Ray) was supposed to protect new-born children and their mothers from the power of the fairies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

toadstonen.²

Brit.

/ˈtəʊdstəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈtoʊdˌstoʊn/

Etymology: Of uncertain origin; thought by some to be so named from the resemblance of its amygdaloidal spots to those on a toad's skin; by others to be a corruption of a German todtes gestein ‘dead rock’, reduced perhaps to *todt-stein. But there appears to be no evidence of this, other than the fact that some Derbyshire mining terms appear to be of German origin.

local.

A name given by the Derbyshire lead-miners to an igneous rock, occurring as irregular sheets of contemporaneous lava, interstratified with, or in connection with the metalliferous mountain limestone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > toadstone

bufonite1769

toadstone1784

1784 Darwin in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 5 The vast beds of toad-stone or lava in many parts of this country.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 229 Toadstone is of a dark brownish grey colour, abounding with cavities filled with crystallized spar.

1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. ii. iii. 52 The rock is covered occasionally by toadstone, called in that country coppercraig.

1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 355 Some of these toadstone beds are compact and basaltic, others are earthy, vesicular, and amygdaloidal.

1888 Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. Jrnl. 10 2 The white patches of calcite give to a freshly fractured surface of the rock a peculiar appearance,..considered so like the marks on the body of a toad that the rock is known as Toadstone.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	toadstone
释义	toadstonen.¹ Brit. /ˈtəʊdstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈtoʊdˌstoʊn/ Etymology: < toad n. + stone n. A name (rendering Greek and Latin batrachītēs, or medieval Latin bufonītēs, crapodīnus, French crapaudine (13th cent.): cf. German krötenstein), formerly applied to various stones or stone-like objects, likened to a toad in colour or shape, or supposed to be produced by a toad; often credited with alexipharmic or therapeutic virtues, and worn as jewels or amulets, or set in rings. These, though of various origin, were all considered to be forms or species of the same ‘stone’, the most valued kind of which was fabled to be found in the head of the toad, a belief to which many allusions occur in literature: cf. quot. a1616 at toad n. 1aδ. . ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > occult medicine toadstone1558 erne-stone1587 amulet1718 amuletic1753 muti1860 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > stones associated with animals > [noun] > toad-stone crapauteea1440 crapaudc1440 paddock-stone1488 grapoud?a1500 crapaudine1558 toadstone1558 crawpock1584 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > occult medicine > amulet against disease or to aid healing > stone achatea1398 aetitesa1500 toadstone1558 erne-stone1587 1558 Gifts to Q. Eliz. in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth II. 539 A iewell containing a Crapon or Toade stone set in golde. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. v. sig. E4 His saffron iewell, with the toade-stone in 't. View more context for this quotation 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 63 As for that..styled a Toadstone; this is properly a tooth of the Fish called Lupus marinus, as hath been made evident to the Royal Society by..Dr. Merit. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 128 By my Bufonites or Toad-stone, I intend not that shining polish'd stone,..but a certain reddish liver-colour'd real stone. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1435/4 One gold Ring with a large counterfeited Toad stone. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 398 A Montebank..taking of a Ring..which seemd set with a dull darke stone a little swelling out, like what we call (though untruely) a Toad-stone, wetting his finger a little in his mouth, & but touching it, it conceiv'd a luculent flame. 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 199 These convex osseous Tubercules..are of the same kind with our English Bufonites or Toadstones. 1704 tr. P. Baldæus True Descr. Malabar & Coromandel in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 658/1 The Toad-stone is found in the Head of a certain kind of Toads. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iii. 16 It was distinguished by the name of the Reptile, and called the Toad-Stone, Bufonites, Crapaudine, Krottenstein; but all its fancied powers vanished on the discovery of its being nothing but the fossil tooth of the sea-wolf. 1812 W. Scott Let. 4 Apr. (1932) II. 102 A toadstone, a celebrated amulet... It was sovereign for protecting new born children and their mothers from the power of the fairies and has been repeatedly borrowd from my mother on account of this virtue. 1870 Handbk. Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, & Cambs. (John Murray) 291 At the feet [of an image of the Virgin] was a toadstone, indicating her victory over all evil and uncleanness. attributive.1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance xxvi Toad~stone ring.1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 156 A toadstone ring (the fossil palatal tooth of a species of Ray) was supposed to protect new-born children and their mothers from the power of the fairies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). toadstonen.² Brit. /ˈtəʊdstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈtoʊdˌstoʊn/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin; thought by some to be so named from the resemblance of its amygdaloidal spots to those on a toad's skin; by others to be a corruption of a German todtes gestein ‘dead rock’, reduced perhaps to todt-stein. But there appears to be no evidence of this, other than the fact that some Derbyshire mining terms appear to be of German origin. local. A name given by the Derbyshire lead-miners to an igneous rock, occurring as irregular sheets of contemporaneous lava, interstratified with, or in connection with the metalliferous mountain limestone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > toadstone bufonite1769 toadstone1784 1784 Darwin in Philos. Trans.* (Royal Soc.) 75 5 The vast beds of toad-stone or lava in many parts of this country. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 229 Toadstone is of a dark brownish grey colour, abounding with cavities filled with crystallized spar. 1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. ii. iii. 52 The rock is covered occasionally by toadstone, called in that country coppercraig. 1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 355 Some of these toadstone beds are compact and basaltic, others are earthy, vesicular, and amygdaloidal. 1888 Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. Jrnl. 10 2 The white patches of calcite give to a freshly fractured surface of the rock a peculiar appearance,..considered so like the marks on the body of a toad that the rock is known as Toadstone. 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