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

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..

Inlapidate :: Inlapidate (v. t.) To convert into a stony substance; to petrity.

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

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

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

Astonied :: Astonied (p. p.) Stunned; astonished. See Astony.

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

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..

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..

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

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

Heliopora :: Heliopora (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

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

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

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

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance..

Actinaria :: Actinaria (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not..

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

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