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Stony :: Stony (superl.) 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..

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals..

Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Stood :: Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze..

Stonework :: Stoneweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets..

Isis :: Isis (n.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea..

Astony :: Astony (v. t.) To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.

Astonying :: Astonying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aston.

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. i.) To become stone or stony.

Sclerodermata :: Sclerodermata (n. pl.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Brimstony :: Brimstony (a.) Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.

Holosiderite :: Holosiderite (n.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Calculary :: Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.

Fungian :: Fungian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals..

Lapillation :: Lapillation (n.) The state of being, or the act of making, stony..

Devitrification :: Devitrification (n.) The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products..

Gromwell :: Gromwell (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera..

Loy :: Loy (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands..

Tophaceous :: Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

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