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stoned, ppl. a. and a.|stəʊnd| [f. stone v. and n. + -ed.] 1. Pelted with stones.
1483Cath. Angl. 359/2 Stanyd, lapidatus. 2. †a. Built of stone; fortified with stone. Obs.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 4352 Make we na vessall of virre..Ne store staned strenthis. b. Paved with stones.
1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 356 Depressions in the stoned surface cannot be well repaired without ‘picking up’ the metal to the depth of several inches. †3. Made of stoneware: = stone n. attrib. (17 b). Obs. rare—1.
1593N. Country Wills (Surtees) II. 157 Twoe stoned pottes garnished with silver. 4. a. Of a male animal (esp. a horse): Having testicles, not castrated, entire: = stone n. attrib. (17 f). ? Obs.
1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 59 Quhow thine vndantit mycht Constrenis so sum tyme the stonit hors. 1535Coverdale Jer. v. 8 In the desyre of vnclenely lust they are become like the stoned horse. 1559in Kempe Losely MSS. (1836) 177, I do geve unto William More, esquire, thre stoned coltes and thre geldinges. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 133 They have no Gueldings or ambling Nagges,..but commonly use trotting and stoned Nagges. 1688Phil. Trans. XVIII. 121 There is a Law, that no Horse shall be kept stoned under a certain size. †b. transf. Lascivious: cf. stone n. 17 f. Obs.
1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 184 These stoned Priests haue manifested by their practises [etc.]. †5. Of fruit: Having a stone or stones. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis iii. ix. 111 Stanit heppis, quhilk I on buskis fand. 1681Grew Musæum ii. §i. ii. 188 A Stoned-Fruit in shape..like a Quince. 1705Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. (1722) 112 Of stoned Fruits, I have met with three good Sorts: viz., Cherries, Plums, and Persimmons. 6. Of fruit: Deprived of the stone or stones.
1728E. S[mith] Compl. Housew. (ed. 2) 256 Put in 2 handfuls of ston'd Raisins. 1743Lady's Companion (ed. 4) I. 438 Put in some Capers, ston'd Olives, and a Drop of Vinegar. 1764E. Moxon Eng. Housew. (ed. 9) 159 A pound of ston'd gooseberries. 1846A. Soyer Gastron. Regen. 533 Line a charlotte mould..with various kinds of fruits (such as stoned cherries, strawberries, [etc.]). 1902Daily Chron. 15 Feb. 8/4 Butter a pudding mould, and cover the inside with stoned raisins. 7. slang. a. Drunk, extremely intoxicated (see also quot. 1952). Freq. const. on. Chiefly pred., esp. in phr. to get stoned. Cf. stone n. 19 c. orig. U.S.
1952Life 29 Sept. 67/2 Like boiled snails, bop jokes certainly are not everybody's dish, but those who acquire the taste for them feel cool, gone, crazy and stoned. Ibid. 67/3 Stoned, drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world. 1955Amer. Speech XXX. 305 Stoned out of his skull, intoxicated to an intense degree. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) i. xiii. 90, I had finished the wine..and I was proper stoned. 1968Listener 28 Nov. 735/2 He would only be taken in charge if he was drunk: were he to spend his ten shillings on getting stoned out of his mind the police would happily accommodate him. 1972R. Reid Canadian Style (1973) iv. 144 Then they all laugh and get stoned. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 18 We drive off the ferry at Roscoff late in the afternoon, both well and truly stoned on cut-price booze. b. In a state of drug-induced euphoria, ‘high’; also, incapacitated or stimulated by drugs, drugged. orig. U.S.
1953Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic in Narcotics 315 Stoned, under the influence of drugs. 1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) ix. 85 You're an H-man..and we know you copped three decks a little while back. Are you stoned now, or can you read me? 1967M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene viii. 97 Addicts know these dangers, one for example describing graphically how in a ‘stoned’ state he had stepped out in front of a car. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird x. 129 They're all lying around in there wearing beads and stoned out of their skulls on French Blues. 1981M. Leitch Silver's City viii. 65 If he'd been pissed, he reflected, instead of stoned, he might still be in khaki, but, as it was, the old man had a down on drugs, and so it was a dishonourable discharge or nothing. c. fig.
1952[see sense 7 a above]. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 742 A cool cat..is..much of the time stoned on wine, pot.., heroin or an overdose of Zen Buddhism. 1969Listener 17 July 88/3 We are, by any definition, stoned on liberty, smashed by self-fulfilment; the real need now is for silence and what used to be called classical restraint—and irony. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 1220/5 He [sc. Tom Robbins] is also a moralist, and although superficially he belongs to the ‘stoned’ school of American fiction, along with Brautigan, Kotzwinkle et al, there is a more interesting comparison to be made with the work of Aldous Huxley. d. With out.
1968A. Diment Great Spy Race iii. 39 He..[was] chortling in his stoned out way. Tim was really blocked. 1972R. K. Smith Ransom i. 23 Joyboy had been a stoned-out junkie. 1977Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 51/1 We even have a comedy collection—the Firesign Theatre's Forward into the Past, a double album's worth of puns, alliterations, slapstick and stoned-out mayhem. |