Definition of "stony"

The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 443

When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles[sic – meaning Marseillaise],” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears.

2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker‎

o’er the heaps of dead, / Whose stony eyes glared in the morning light, / I trod; […]

1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 264

The Oscar-thrilled audience reacted to Mailer's attempt at humor in stony silence.

1977 April 9, “Mailer Mauls "Perverts"”, in Gay Community News, page 2

Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]