Obs. [f. STONE sb. + -ISH1.] Resembling, or having the character of, stone; stony. (Chiefly fig.)
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.), 158. Harde and stonysshe ware yt hert.
1530. Palsgr., 302. Pierreux, stony or stonysshe.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 206. Is there annye man so possessed wyth stonyshe insensibilitie…?
