Lexic.us

Definition of Flint

1. Noun. A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony.

2. Adjective. Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings. "The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

3. Noun. A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River.

4. Noun. A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing.

Definition of Flint

1. n. A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

Definition of Flint

1. to provide with flint (a spark-producing rock) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Flint

1. 1. A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in colour usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; formerly much used, especially. In the hammers of gun locks. 3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. "A heart of flint." Flint age. An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. Flint stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. Flint wall, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. Origin: AS. Flint, akin to Sw. Flinta, Dan. Flint; cf. OHG. Flins flint, G. Flinte gun (cf. E. Flintlock), perh. Akin to Gr. Brick. Cf. Plinth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flint

flinders Flindersia Flindersia australis Flindersia schottiana flindosa flindosy fling flinger flingers flinging

flings fling off flinkite flinkites flint (current term) Flint Flint's arcade Flint's murmur Flint's syndrome flint-hearted

flinted flinthead flintheads flintier flintiest flintify flintily flintiness flintinesses flinting

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