stony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stony	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stony adj abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" Synonym(s): rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" Synonym(s): flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony hard as granite; "a granitic fist" Synonym(s): granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stony \Ston"y\, a. [Compar. {Stonier}; superl. {Stoniest}.] [AS. st[be]nig. See {Stone}.] 1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold. --Spenser. 3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze. {Stony coral}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stone coral}, under {Stone}.