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Rocky   /rˈɑki/   Listen
adjective
Rocky  adj.  
1.
Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
2.
Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
3.
Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
Rocky Mountain locust (Zool.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper.
Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zool.) See Bighorn.





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"Rocky" Quotes from Famous Books



... o'clock, the column made its way slowly and with vast difficulty up the ascent. This was everywhere rugged and rocky, and in many places so precipitous that men had to be pushed or pulled up by ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty
... hatless, and with no covering over his thin black dinner-coat. He crossed the meadow, and climbed the little range of broken, rocky hills, from which one could see down even into the flower-gardens of Beauleys. He could see there no sign of disturbance, save that there were two motor-cars before the door. Slowly he made his way to the lodge gates, and passing ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... they were seated on the grassy bank of the brook that went so sweetly blundering over the great stones of its rocky channel, for the whole meadow lay on the top of a huge rock, then he felt that the right hour had come for sharing with them the wonderful things that had come to him. It was perhaps the loveliest of all hours in the year. The summer was young and soft, and this was ...
— The Princess and the Curdie • George MacDonald
... at things from that angle after you cross the Rocky Mountains on your way west. Moreover, mine is the only real car in the country, and I know you like it. What are you going to ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... displayed. First, he observes that there is a beautiful basin hollowed out in the land for the reception of a bay; that the sides of this basin, which from being near its opening are most exposed to the action of large rolling billows, are composed of rocky cliffs, evidently in order to prevent the further encroachment of the sea, and the consequent destruction of the entire bay; that the sides of the basin, which from being successively situated more inland ...
— Thoughts on Religion • George John Romanes


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