What is the meaning of STONY. Phrases containing STONY
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Stony is British and Australian slang for completely without money; penniless.
Stony−broke is British slang for completely without money; penniless.
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n.
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.
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A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
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An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
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Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.
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The stony corals; the Madreporaria.
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Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
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Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.
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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.
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A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
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Stony.
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Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
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Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
adv.
In a stony manner.
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Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
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The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.
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The quality or state of being stony.
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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.
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An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.
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The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
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An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.
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