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Astonying :: Astonying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aston.

Petrosal :: Petrosal (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone..

Tophaceous :: Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

Hydrocorallia :: Hydrocorallia (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora..

Stony :: Stony (superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

Gromwell :: Gromwell (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera..

Decalcify :: Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin..

Madreporaria :: Madreporaria (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa..

Stood :: Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze..

Astony :: Astony (v. t.) To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.

Lithophyte :: Lithophyte (n.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance..

Actinaria :: Actinaria (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not..

Lithiasis :: Lithiasis (n.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages..

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals..

Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.

Calculary :: Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.

Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. t.) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

Stonework :: Stoneweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets..

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