a brilliant, hexagonally crystalline mineral, silicon dioxide, SiO2, occurring in abundance, most often in a colourless, transparent form, but also sometimes in coloured varieties used as semiprecious stones; quartz.

an instrument consisting usu. of a handle and lash forming a flexible part that is used for whipping; a whip.

a long staff formally carried by a man of lowest caste in India as a symbol of his being untouchable.