silex









silex


silex [sahy-leks] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. flint; silica.

Origin of silex 1585–95; Latin silex, stem silic- hard stone, flint, boulder Examples from the Web for silex Historical Examples of silex

  • They had implements of copper, as well as of silex, and porphyries.

    Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History

    Henry R. Schoolcraft

  • The tower we see there was that of the windmill which ground the silex.

    Historic Paris

    Jetta S. Wolff

  • At the bottom of each pore a thin lamella of silex, perforated by four to six irregular, roundish, double-contoured porules.

    Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)

    Ernst Haeckel

  • Other filling material as silicate of soda, borax, talc or silex are used.

    Soap-Making Manual

    E. G. Thomssen

  • All this rich land was thickly strewed with small fragments of fossil wood, in silex, agate, and chalcedony.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

    Thomas Mitchell

  • British Dictionary definitions for silex silex noun

    1. a type of heat-resistant glass made from fused quartz

    Word Origin for silex C16: from Latin: hard stone, flint

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