stony

the stony desolation of the desert.

Lucenzo's hard, stony eyes.

a stony feeling of fear.

the election budget got a stony reception in the City.

1.a stony loamless yard.

He listened to her story with a stony expression.

the Budget got a stony reception from the City.

they had to carry the victim across the rough, stony ground.

rocky fields; stony ground; bouldery beaches.

he went back to a climate more congenial to his cold stony soul.

the car park was too rutted and stony to permit ball games.

She tried to warn him, but her words fell on stony ground.

Drupe (pyrenocarp) A fleshy indehiscent fruit containing one or more seeds each surrounded by a hard stony wall, the endocarp.

The old town sits quite apart from the new, with no cars, trucks, nor motorbikes, and only the occasional pushbike is led through the old town's stony pedestrian streets.

Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains the stony entrance of this sepulchre? What mean these masterless and gory swords to lie discolour'd by this place of peace?