ROCKY

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.

2.
a.

Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield. Milton.

3.
a.

Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. Shak. Rocky Mountain locust (Zoöl.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper. -- Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.

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