Stony: of stone: hard like a stone. Lapideus murus. Liu. Lapidea duritia. Plin. A stony hardnesse. Lapideus imber. Cic. A taining of stones. Lapideo imbri pluit. Liu. It rayned stones.

I. Of stone, consisting of stones, stone-.

A. Lit. (class.): flumen marginibus lapideis, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45: imber, a shower of stones, id. Div. 2, 28, 60; so, pluit lapideo imbri, Liv. 30, 38, 8: murus, id. 1, 38 fin.: in lapideo mortario terere, Plin. 34, 18, 50, 169: duritia, id. 27, 11, 74, 98: suggestus, Col. 9, 7, 1.—

B. Trop. (ante-class.): lapideo sunt corde multi, quos non miseret neminis, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 162 Müll. (Trag. v. 174 Vahl.): lapideus sum, I am petrified: commovere me miser non audeo, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 44.—

II. For lapidosus, full of stones, stony (post-Aug.): lapidei campi, Plin. 3, 4, 5, 34; 21, 10, 31, 57: litus, Mel. 2, 5, 4.