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To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

The state of being, or the act of making, stony.

Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles.

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

Like a stone; having a stony structure.

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.

A long, narrow spade for stony lands.

An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. -- Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an, a. & n.

Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

n; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.

one; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.

Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.

Ragged; rough. [Obs.] "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.

ail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

ed in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. Reef builder (Zoöl.), any stony coral which contributes material to the formation of coral reefs. -- Reef heron (Zoöl.), any heron of the genus Demigretta; as, the blue reef heron (D.jugularis) of Australia.

A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Sir W. Scott.