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

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 This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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