Definition of lint

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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..

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Crystal :: Crystal (n.) A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass..
Cherty :: Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
Flint :: Flint (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint..
Pyrrol :: Pyrrol (n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red..
Glint :: Glint (v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye..
Splint :: Splinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splin.
Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..
Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth..
Skinflint :: Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.
Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain face or plinth at the lower part of a wall.
Flintwood :: Flintwood (n.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..
Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..
Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..
Manteltree :: Manteltree (n.) The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses..
Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..
Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.
Vitrifiable :: Vitrifiable (a.) Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable..
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