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Match :: Match (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium..

Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

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

Flue :: Flue (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Lint :: Lint (n.) Flax.

Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth..

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..

Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..

Soffit :: Soffit (n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel..

Glent :: Glent (n. & v.) See Glint.

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

Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.

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

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