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Flint Glass :: Flint glass () A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass..

Flintwood :: Flintwood (n.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

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

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

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..

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..

Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use..

Chert :: Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color..

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

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

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

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

Steel :: Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

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

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..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Give :: Give (n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks..

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

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

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