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Definition of Blarney stone
1. Noun. A stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it.
Definition of Blarney stone
1. Proper noun. A stone set in to the upper wall of Blarney Castle in Ireland, which if kissed is supposed to bestow the gift of the gab or blarney. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blarney Stone
Literary usage of Blarney stone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... blarney stone.—Can any of your Irish readers give us information of the ...
hinder him Or to bewilder him, Sure he's a pilgrim From the blarney stone. ..."
2. Seventy Years of Irish Life: Being Anecdotes and Reminiscences by William Richard Le Fanu (1893)
"... VIII Peasant life after the famine of 1847 — An aged goose — Superstitions
and Irish peculiarities — The worship of Baal — The blarney stone — The wren ..."
3. Potter's American Monthly (1880)
"Who has not heard of the blarney stone? "There is a stone there, That whoever
kisses, O, he never misses To grow eloquent; 'Tis he may clamber, ..."
4. Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles Carroll Fulton (1874)
"THE blarney stone. Near the top of the wall of this castle is the famous " Blarney
Stone." A curious tradition attributes to it the power of endowing ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. by George Ripley (1858)
"... original compo. sition, was translated from the Greek I The so. tual Blarney
stone is not the one commonly es luted as such, ..."
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