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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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 This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

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..

Minium :: Minium (n.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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