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One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

Hewing or dressing stone.

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.

The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch. [Prov. Eng.]

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.

Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

In a stony manner.

The quality or state of being stony.

Stony. [R.] "Possessed with stonish insensibility." Robynson (More's Utopia).

3d pers. sing. present of Stand.

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.

Of or pertaining to an army. [R.]

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.