bilestone
English
Etymology
Noun
bilestone (plural bilestones)
- A gallstone, or biliary calculus.
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- the oil of turpentine dissolved its fragments of bilestone
References
- “bilestone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.