stone cold (stonk old)

Cold as a stone. Fletcher and Shirley, Night-Walker, iv. 4. stone-color (stōn'kul"or), n. The color of stone; a grayish color. stone-colored (stōn'kul"ord), a. Sharpe ston'd and thorny, where he pa 'd of late. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 3 The Geant was by Gaffray don bore, So discomfite, standede, and all cold. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3121. He cannot be so stupid, or stone -dead. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. Of the usual stone-deaf (ston'def'), a . Deaf as a stone; color of a large ma of stone, a cold bluish gray. stone-coral (ston'kor"al), n. Ma ive coral, as distinguished from branching coral, or tree coral; hard, sclerodermatous or litho coralline coral, as distinguished from sclerobasic coral. Most corals are of this character, and are hex a coralline (not, however, the red coral of commerce, which is related to the sea-fans and other octocorallines).