Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of stony is as below...

Calcify :: Calcify (v. i.) To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth..

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

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness..

Matrix :: Matrix (n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.

Rock :: Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) A stony concretion.

Lapilli :: Lapilli (n. pl.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles..

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

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..

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

Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate..

Stony :: Stony (superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

Decalcify :: Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin..

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..

Petrosal :: Petrosal (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone..

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

Hydrocorallia :: Hydrocorallia (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora..

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..

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

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular