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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..

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged..

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

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch..

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

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 This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

Splinterproof :: Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot..

Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..

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..

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

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..

Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain face or plinth at the lower part of a wall.

Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet..

Member :: Member (n.) Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings..

Niagara Period :: Niagara period () A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology..

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

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..

Manteltree :: Manteltree (n.) The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses..

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

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