[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That stones, in senses of the vb.; † petrifying.
1623. W. Lisle, Ælfric’s O. & N. Test., To Rdrs. ¶ 4. To mould the dow of artificiall marble, and bake it in Killes for building … or tempered with clammy and stoning waters, to plaster and polish it with tooles appliable vnto all formes.
1891. Meredith, One of our Conq., xxxii. A man whose appearance breathed of offering her common ground, whereon to meet and speak together, unburdened by the hunting world, and by the stoneing world.
