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

Flintware :: Flintware (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

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

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..

Flintiness :: Flintiness (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

Crystal :: Crystal (n.) A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass..

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..

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

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

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

Firelock :: Firelock (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock..

Calyon :: Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc..

Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..

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

Spongiopilin :: Spongiolite (n.) One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints..

Flinty :: Flinty (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart..

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..

Felsite :: Felsite (n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz..

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

Fusee :: Fusee (n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

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