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Hornstone   Listen
noun
Hornstone  n.  (Min.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; called also chert.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... more than equal in bulk to the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which comprises 75 million. From several of these repositories pottery and ornamental sculpture have been taken, and various articles in silver and copper, also stone weapons, some composed of hornstone unpolished, and much resembling in shape some ancient flint implements found near Amiens and other places in Europe, to be alluded to ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Hornstone" :   hornfels, metamorphic rock



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