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silex1|ˈsaɪlɛks|
[L. silex flint. So F. silex.]
Flint, silica.
a1592Greene Orpharion Wks. (Grosart) XII. 68 The precious stone Silex is full of secret vertue.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Silex, flint, in natural history, the name of a genus of semi-pellucid stones [etc.]. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 433 Most of the ambiguous stones..contain, besides portions of calcareous and argillaceous earths, certain portions of the silex also. 1805Phil. Trans. XCV. 231 If the stone contain silex, this earth will be separated in the process of solution and evaporation. 1840J. Buel Farmer's Companion 35 Silex is apparent in the epidermis of Indian corn, wheat, oats, and the hollow grasses. 1878Huxley Physiogr. xvi. 271 It would..be a highly fossiliferous limestone with more or less silex.
attrib.1887Daily News 20 June 2/6 Valuable seams of hematite ore and silex pottery clay. 1895Outing XXVI. 36/1 The collection of silex grains that for courtesy we called the road. |