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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..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..

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

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

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

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..

Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.

Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage..

Quadra :: Quadra (n.) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like..

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

Lintseed :: Lintseed (n.) See Linseed.

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

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

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter..

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

Glint :: Glint (v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter..

Chazy Epoch :: Chazy epoch () An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology..

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

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