† 1. Lime, limestone: see CHALK sb. 1. Obs.
† 2. ? A piece of chalk. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. 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 Chalkstony 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. 16. Some whose hands were stiff or chalkstony.
