tinder, tondre, tunder

[A. S. tyndre, cogn. with tend an =to kindle; Icel. tundr tinder; tendra =to light a fire; tandri =fire; Dan. tönder tinder; Sw. tunder; Ger. zünder.] Any substance eminently combustible. It is usually of dried rotten wood or rag, dipped in a preparation of sulphur, used to kindle a fire from a spark. [AMADOU.] "In one of them there was the stone they strike fire with, and tinder made of bark, but of what tree could not be distinguished."-Cook: Second Voyage , bk. i., ch. IMG:content-1146.png:[blocks in formation] Min.: An impure, soft variety of Jamesonite (q. v.). Color, a dark dirty red. Formerly referred to kermesite, but now shown to be a mixture of Jamesonite with red silver and mispickel. Found in the mines of the Hartz mountains. *tin-der-ý, a. [Eng. tinder; -y.] Like tinder; inflammable. "I love nobody for nothing; I am not so tindery." - Mad. D'Arblay: Diary, vi. 44.