Definition of Stoney

1. stony [adj STONIER, STONIEST] - See also: stony

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoney

stonewalls
stoneware
stonewares
stonewash
stonewashed
stonewashes
stonewashing
stonework
stoneworker
stoneworkers
stoneworking
stoneworks
stonewort
stoneworts
stoney (current term)
stong
stongs
stonied
stonier
stonies
stoniest
stonified
stonifies
stonify
stonifying
stonily
stoniness
stoninesses
stoning

Literary usage of Stoney

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"Mr. stoney took his wife's family name, and, indeed, everything else of hers on which he ... Thackeray, in depicting Barry Lyndon, drew from stoney Bowes, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"It is true that Mr. stoney was not aware in 1856 that Sir John ... by the foregoing passage into supposing that Mr. stoney reproduced in 1850 the instrument ..."

3. Women of the War by Barbara McLaren (1918)
"X MISS EDITH stoney AND DR. FLORENCE stoney MISS EDITH stoney and her sister, Dr. Florence stoney, are specialists in X-ray work, and in this vitally ..."

4. Women of the War by Barbara McLaren (1917)
"MISS EDITH stoney AND DR FLORENCE stoney Miss EDITH stoney and her sister, Dr Florence stoney, are specialists in X-ray work, and in this vitally important ..."

5. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"A British engineer, Mr. stoney, invented the stoney roller, which gives the name to the ... Experiments on the Chicago Drainage Canal with the stoney gates, ..."

6. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries by Victor Plarr (1899)
"Address: 8 Melbury Road, Kensington Road, W. stoney, Bindon Blood, CE, LL. ... 15,1826, and is the eldest son of the late George stoney, of Oakley Park, ..."

7. Report of the Conservation Commission of the State of California: January 1 by California Conservation Commission, George Cooper Pardee, Frank Adams, Sidney T. Harding, Ralph D. Robertson, C. E. Tait, Charles Hamilton Lee (1912)
"As, in addition to stoney Creek and Sacramento River, water-bearing gravels underlie much of the Orland area, with usual lifts of only about 20 feet, ..."

8. The Life of General George Washington by John Kingston, John Corry (1813)
"In May, 1779, General Clinton sent a division of the British army to take stoney Point, a strong fort on the western aide of the north river. ..."

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