Word Meanings - HORNSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Resemble
  To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
• Stonecutter
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• Stonework
  Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Flintlock
  A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
• Flintware
  A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
• Resembler
  One who resembles.
• Stonecutting
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• Stonewort
  Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Flintwood
  An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
• Resemblingly
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• Stone-dead
  As dead as a stone.
• Variety
  The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
• Brittle
  Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.

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