stony

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STONY, adjective [G.] 1. Made of stone; as a stony tower. 2. Consisting of stone; as a stony cave. 3. Full of stones; abounding with stones; as stony ground. 4. Petrifying; as the stony dart of senseless cold. 5. Hard; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; as a stony heart. 6. Insensible; obdurate; perverse; morally hard.
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