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Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.

Hornstone :: Hornstone (n.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert..

Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..

Litharge :: Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot..

Vitrifiable :: Vitrifiable (a.) Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable..

Firestone :: Firestone (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint..

Skinflint :: Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.

Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

Chrysoprase :: Chrysoprase (n.) An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry..

Lock :: Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..

Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..

Sycoceric :: Sycite (n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig..

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies..

Flint-hearted :: Flint-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted.

Flint :: Flint (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint..

Cherty :: Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..

Flint :: Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..

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