Middle English Dictionary Entry

stōnī adj.
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.
(a) Consisting of stone, made of stone; (b) fig. unfeeling, insensitive; ~ herte, a hard heart; (c) constructed of building stones or stonework; (d) full of stones, rocky; beset with stones or rocks; also fig.; (e) of a fish: living in gravelly or rocky waters, inhabiting stony waters; of a plant: ?growing in stony places.
2.
(a) Of sulfur: in a solidified or crystalline state; (b) of a deer's antlers: covered with bumps, knobby.
3a.
Med. (a) Like a calculus; of a person: afflicted with a calculus; (b) of a lump or swelling in the body: hardened, solidified; also, of induration: hard, stiff; (c) as noun: a hard lump or growth in a horse's body.
3b.
Anat. Of the parts of the temporal bones of the skull: very hard and dense; the ~ bon(es, the petrous part of the temporal bone(s containing the labyrinth of the ear.
4.
(a) In surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.145].

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 3.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. stony bone.