Word Meanings - HORNSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• CHERTY
  Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
• FLINTWOOD
  An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• SILICEOUS
  Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• FLINTWARE
  A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• FLINTINESS
  The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.
• QUARTZOID
  A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.