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Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..

Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Tanite :: Tanite (n.) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc..

Slabber :: Slabber (n.) A saw for cutting slabs from logs.

Table :: Table (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab..

Slabbing :: Slabbing (a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces..

Slatt :: Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

Inequality :: Inequality (n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The slack part of a sail.

Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.

Ashlering :: Ashlering (n.) Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

Slabbering :: Slabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slabbe.

Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

Phonolite :: Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone..

Slab :: Slab (n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces..

Table :: Table (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working..

Slabber :: Slabber (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure..

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