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
A stony expression or attitude does not show any sympathy or friendliness. He drove us home in stony silence
Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze
(i) A stoniness class in which there are enough stones at or near the soil surface to be a continuing nuisance during operations that the mix the surface layer, but they do not make most such operations impractical (ii) Containing appreciable quantities of stones See also rock fragments