...creampot, about 7 inches high and 2^ broad. On its outside, which is of a brown color, there are white and yellow groups of raised figures, representing Ceres...unfrequently the nodules are in part chalcedonic. Hornstone resembles flint, but is more brittle, and therefore unfit for making into flints. It is found...

...slate.' — 16. der Feuerstein, ' flint stone,' 'flint'; a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, of dark shades of smoky gray, brown, or even black,...feebly translucent. It breaks with sharp cutting edges ; it is very hard, and strikes fire with steel ; formerly much used, especially in the hammer of gunlocks....

...of sand and white chalcedony in alternate layers it is called sand onyx. Flint, Ilornstonc, Chert. Massive compact silica, of dark shades of smoky gray, brown or even black, feebly translucent, breaking with sharp cutting edges an'da conchoidal surface. Flint occurs in nodules...

...of sand and white chalcedony in alternate layers it is called sand onyx. Flint, Hornet one, Chert. Massive compact silica, of dark shades of smoky gray, brown or even black, feebly translucent, breaking with sharp cutting edges and a conchoidal surface. Flint occurs in nodules...

...agate, or with quartz crystals, making what are called geodes. FLINT, HORNSTONE, CHERT.—Massive, compact silica, of dark shades of smoky gray, brown, or even black, feebly translucent, breaking with sharp, cutting edges and a conchoidal surface. Chert is an impure...

...chalcidony or agate, or with quartz crystals, making what are called geodes. FLINT, HORNSTONE, CHERT. — Massive, compact silica, of dark shades of smoky gray, brown, or even black, feebly translucent, breaking with sharp, cutting edges and a conchoidal surface. Chert is an impure...