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

Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..

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..

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

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

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..

Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Flintiness :: Flintiness (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..

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..

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

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

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

Felsite :: Felsite (n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz..

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