The stony dart of senseless cold.
Spenser.
3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold;
morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony
gaze.
Stony coral. (Zoöl.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.
Stood (?), imp. & p. p. of Stand.
Stook (?), n. [Scot. stook, stouk; cf. LG. stuke a heap, bundle, G.
stauche a truss, bundle of flax.] (Agric.) A small collection of
sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
Stook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stooked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stooking.]
(Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Stool (?), n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers
are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.
Stool, v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out
suckers. R. D. Blackmore.
Stool (?), n. [AS. stl a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. stl, D. stoel, G.
stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. stll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stls, Lith.
stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. √163. See
Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.] 1. A single seat with three or four legs and
without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a
discharge from the bowels.