Associations to the word «Hornfels»

Wiktionary

HORNFELS, noun. Any of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.

Dictionary definition

HORNFELS, noun. A fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats