island, or rather a peninsula insulated at high water, on the N.E. coast of England, 9 miles S.S.E. of Berwick-on-Tweed. It was by the Britons called Holy-Stone Iris Medicante, and also Lindisfarne, from the small rivulet Lindi or Landia, and fahreen, a recess. It received its present name from being the site of one of the earliest monasteries established in this country. It is connected with the mainland by sandbanks dry at low water, and affording a passage to vehicles of all kinds. It has an area of 3320 acres, but about one-half of its surface towards the N. is a sandy waste, abounding in rabbit-burrows. The rest of it, however, is very productive. At the S.W. angle of the island is a small village, formerly a town of considerable size. The ruins of its celebrated abbey still exist, and are aptly termed by Sir W. Scott, "a solemn, large, and dark red pile." Pop. (1851) 908.

Holy-Stone, a large stone used for cleaning ship's decks. It receives its name from the unwillingness of sailors to submit to the drudgery of using it.