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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Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..
Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
Glint :: Glint (v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter..
Flittermouse :: Flittermouse (n.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse..
Splinting :: Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splin.
Lintseed :: Lintseed (n.) See Linseed.
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A splint bone.
Lock :: Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..
Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..
Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter..
Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..
Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Compress :: Compress (n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part..
Hornstone :: Hornstone (n.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert..
Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use..
Spongiopilin :: Spongiolite (n.) One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints..
Minium :: Minium (n.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead..
Flue :: Flue (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair..
Glinting :: Glinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glin.
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