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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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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