stony

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I repeated, rising and facing him with what he afterwards described as a stony glare Pardon me!

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  1. adjective Covered with or full of stones: a stony beach.
  2. adjective Resembling stone, as in hardness.
  3. adjective Hardhearted and unfeeling; unemotional.

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  • His expression stony, Jack considered the possibilities; only the glint in his eyes betrayed his mood. —  A Lady of Expectations
  • I repeated, rising and facing him with what he afterwards described as a stony glare Pardon me! —  That Affair Next Door
  • Barren, stony, and deserted, the road twisted in and out below them, visible from that elevation for a considerable distance. —  The Swindler and Other Stories
  • Her face was stony, her hands were clenched. —  Prudence of the Parsonage
  • It was rough and stony, and to call it a field was a figure of speech; the soil was nothing but sand, and the grass was of the coarsest. —  The Rectory Children
 

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  1. from Middle English stony, stany, from Anglo-Saxon stǣnig (= Old High German Middle High German steinag, German steinig = Swedish stenig), stony, from stān, stone: see stone. Cf. Anglo-Saxon staniht = German steinicht = Danish stenet, stony.
  2. from Middle English stonyen, stonien; cf. astony, stun, stound, and aston.
 

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