Noun
A small stone, once believed to be a jewel embedded in the head of a toad, worn as an amulet.
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A soft, earthy variety of trap-rock of a brownish-grey colour, looking like an argillaceous deposit.
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Rowley-Rag appeared to be the same thing as basalt and toadstone resembled some species of lava.