Flint :: Flint (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..

Flint :: Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..

Flint :: Flint (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint..

Flint Glass :: Flint glass () A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass..

Flint-hearted :: Flint-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted.

Flintiness :: Flintiness (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies..

Flintware :: Flintware (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

Flintwood :: Flintwood (n.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

Flinty :: Flinty (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart..

Glint :: Glint (n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam..

Glint :: Glint (v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter..

Glint :: Glint (v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye..

Glinted :: Glinted (imp. & p. p.) of Glin.

Glinting :: Glinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glin.

Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..

Lint :: Lint (n.) Flax.

Lint :: Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

Lintie :: Lintie (n.) Alt. of Lintwhit.

Lintseed :: Lintseed (n.) See Linseed.

Lintwhite :: Lintwhite (n.) See Linnet.

Plinth :: Plinth (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column..

Skinflint :: Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.

Splint :: Splining (a.) Of or pertaining to a spline.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A splint bone.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..

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