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

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

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

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..

Flinty :: Flinty (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Flint-hearted :: Flint-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted.

Flint :: Flint (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint..

Hornstone :: Hornstone (n.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert..

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

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..

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

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..

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