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

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..

Flittermouse :: Flittermouse (n.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse..

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..

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..

Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..

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

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..

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

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

Buhrstone :: Buhrstone (n.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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