Associations to the word «Schist»

Wiktionary

SCHIST, noun. Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates.

Dictionary definition

SCHIST, noun. Any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers.

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