To Stone. v.a. [from the noun.]

1. To pelt or beat or kill with stones.

   These people be almost ready to stone me. Ex. xvii. 4.

   Crucifixion was a punishment unknown to the Jewish laws, among whom the stoning to death was the punishment for blasphemy. Stephens's Sermons.

2. To harden.

   Oh perjur'd woman! thou do'st stone my heart;
   And mak'st me call what I intend to do,
   A murder, which I thought a sacrifice. Shakesp. Othello.