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Definition of Silexes
1. silex [n] - See also: silex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silexes
Literary usage of Silexes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"... tertiary period, and discusses at length the remains found in the silex of
Thenay, in the silexes of Otta and ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"The East Indian silexes i Celts, said to be of basalt, were also sent to us.
Upou closer examination their diagnosis gave us a very different result, ..."
3. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo, Henry Yule, Henri Cordier (1903)
"There are oaks ! " " No, no, Yule, not oaks," cried Sir С. В. "They are (solemnly)
IBEXES." "No, not Ibexes, Sir C., you mean silexes," ..."
4. Some Modern French Writers: A Study in Bergsonism by Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes, Henri Bergson (1921)
"A nation never seemed to him a heap of stones, an aggregate of gravel from which
a few silexes may be removed without changing anything. ..."
5. The Land of Midian (revisited). by Richard Francis Burton (1879)
"of the Stone Age, where, eg at Pressigny and Grimes' Graves, the only remnant of
man is a vast strew of worked silexes; and the wandering fraternity of ..."
6. Notes on Pottery Clays: The Distribution, Proper Ties, Uses, and Analyses of by James Fairie (1901)
"... or petro- silexes, rather than of the porcelain clays obtained from them, of
which they are given as analyses ; but the more the matter is looked into, ..."
7. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1879)
"... crosses a sandy plateau, metalled with the usual dark stones and silexes of
the Desert. The horizontal lines of the wady buttresses argue submergence, ..."
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