Word Meanings - CHERTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

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• CHERTY
  Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• FLINTY
  Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• CHERT
  An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.