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Cherty :: Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..

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..

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

Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..

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..

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..

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