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(1):

(n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.

(2):

(n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.

(3):

(v. i.) To grumble; pine; lament; long.

(4):

(v. i.) To pine; to lament; to long.

(5):

(v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.