'Rocky Mountain locust' definitions:
Definition of 'Rocky Mountain locust'
From: GCIDE
- Rocky \Rock"y\, a.
- 1. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Rocky Mountain locust (Zool.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper.
- Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zool.) See Bighorn. [1913 Webster]