Definition of stony

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

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Astonied :: Astonied (p. p.) Stunned; astonished. See Astony.
Calculary :: Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.
Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.
Lithoidal :: Lithoidal (a.) Like a stone; having a stony structure.
Petrous :: Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone..
Decalcify :: Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin..
Lapillation :: Lapillation (n.) The state of being, or the act of making, stony..
Tophaceous :: Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
Madrepore :: Madrepore (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral..
Astonying :: Astonying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aston.
Stood :: Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze..
Calcification :: Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue..
Inlapidate :: Inlapidate (v. t.) To convert into a stony substance; to petrity.
Stoniness :: Stonily (adv.) In a stony manner.
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..
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..
Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. i.) To become stone or stony.
Lithiasis :: Lithiasis (n.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages..
Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..
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