{Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See {Basanite}. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Flinty — Flint y, a. [Compar. {Flintier}; superl. {Flintiest}.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. [1913 Webster] {Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate; basanite… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Flinty state — Flinty Flint y, a. [Compar. {Flintier}; superl. {Flintiest}.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. [1913 Webster] {Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
rock — Synonyms and related words: Gibraltar, Irish confetti, acid rock, adamant, adamantine, affect, agitate, amaze, appease, astonish, astound, avant garde jazz, ballroom music, bankrupt, bebop, bedrock, blunder, bob, bobble, bola, bolt, bone, boogie… … Moby Thesaurus
flinty — Synonyms and related words: Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bony, bowelless, callous, calloused, case hardened, cast iron, cement, cemental, concrete, constant, corneous, cruel, dense, diamondlike, dog eat dog, dour, dure, firm, fixed, flintlike … Moby Thesaurus
Flintier — Flinty Flint y, a. [Compar. {Flintier}; superl. {Flintiest}.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. [1913 Webster] {Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Flintiest — Flinty Flint y, a. [Compar. {Flintier}; superl. {Flintiest}.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. [1913 Webster] {Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Deuteronomy 32 — 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I… … The King James version of the Bible
skarn — In geology, a metamorphic zone developed in the contact area around igneous rock intrusions when carbonate sedimentary rocks are invaded by and replaced with chemical elements that originate from the igneous rock mass nearby. Many skarns also… … Universalium
induration — indurative, adj. /in doo ray sheuhn, dyoo /, n. 1. the act of indurating. 2. the state of being indurated. 3. Geol. a. lithification. b. hardening of rock by heat or pressure. 4. Pathol. a. a hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to… … Universalium
hornfels facies — ▪ rocks a major division of metamorphic rocks (rocks that form by contact metamorphism in the inner parts of the contact zone around igneous intrusions). All of the rocks called hornfels a hard, fine grained, flinty rock are created when… … Universalium
