a. Now only dial. or rare arch. Forms: α. 1 stǽnen, 3 stænen, 2–3 stenen. β. 2–3 stanen, 4 stoonen, 5 stonun, 5–6 -yn, (7 stoneing), 3–5, 9 stonen. [OE. stǽnen = OFris. steinen, OHG., MHG. steinîn, Goth. stainein-s:—OTeut. *stainīno- f. *staino-z STONE sb. The β forms are refashioned after the sb.]
1. Made or consisting of stone: = STONE sb. attrib. (17 a).
a. 900. O. E. Martyrol., 15 May, 82. God sealde … his bebodu … on twam stænenum bredum.
c. 1205. Lay., 9241. & al abuten ouer al he makede stænene wal. Ibid., 12424. Ænne strongne stanene wal. Ibid., 14227. Þer uppe stenene [1275 stonene] wal.
a. 1225. Ancr. R. 378. Ineiled o rode, and ine stonene þruh biclused.
1388. Wyclif, 2 Cor. iii. 3. Writun … not in stony [v.r. stonen] tablis, but in fleischli tablis of herte.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 90. Þe heþun men had sex kyndis of similacris, cleyen, treen, brasun, stonun, silueren, & golden.
c. 1450. Brut, 404. Grete houngir brekithe herd stonen wall yn hir grete nede.
1528. in Phillipps, Wills (c. 1830), 106. My great stonyn trough.
1643. in N. & Q., 5th Ser. VIII. 497/1. He pulled down a stoneing cross.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, II. 103. Ye are our Epistle, says St. Paul,… written … not on stonen tablets, but on fleshen tablets.
Mod. dial. (Berks.) Have you come over the stonen bridge? [i.e., a stone thrown across a ditch or narrow stream.]
† b. fig. Obs.
971. Blickl. Hom., 105. Hie wæron stenenre heortan & blindre.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, IV. ix. (1554), 105 b. No man had so hard a stonen hert That might … his iyen kepe drye.
2. Made of stoneware: = STONE sb. attrib. (17 b).
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., John ii. 6. Þær wæron soĉlice aset six stænene [c. 1160 Hatton stenene] wæter-fatu.
c. 1200. Ormin, 14029. Sexe stanene fetless.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 477/1. Stonyn pott or oþer wessel.
