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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope