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Hornstone

Hornstone \Horn"stone`\, n. (Min.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

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hornstone

n. hornfels

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hornstone

n. a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks [syn: hornfels]

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Kirkilgowock's silvery hornstone roofs shimmered two miles away across the Bay of Repose.