noun. A very hard, fine-grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel.

noun. undefined

noun. A piece of flint used to produce a spark.

noun. A small solid cylinder of a spark-producing alloy, used in lighters to ignite the fuel.

noun. A piece of flint used as a tool by prehistoric humans.

noun. Something resembling flint in hardness.

noun. Sheepskin dried in the sun.

noun. An abbreviation of flint-glass.

noun. A form of silica, somewhat allied to chalcedony, but more opaque, and with less luster.

noun. A piece of flinty stone used for any purpose, as for striking fire in a flint-lock musket or otherwise, or in the form of an implement. See cut under flint-lock.

noun. Figuratively, something very hard or obdurate: as, he was flint against persuasion.

Made or composed of flint.

Hard and firm, as if made of flint: as, flint corn or flint wheat.

noun. 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.

noun. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

noun. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.

noun. Same as Stone age, under Stone.

noun. a fire made principially of powdered silex.

noun. See in the Vocabulary.

noun. tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones.

noun. 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.

noun. a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.

noun. 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.

noun. a solution of silica, or flints, in potash.

noun. to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money.

noun. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.

noun. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.

noun. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

verb. To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

noun. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

adjective. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

noun. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

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

"The Jews seem to have performed the rite of circumcision with flint implements, for we read in Exodus that Zipporah, the wife of Moses, took a sharp stone for that purpose; and the phrase translated "sharp knives" in Joshua v. 2 -- "At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time" -- should be translated, as in the marginal reference, _knives of flint_."

chert  dry flint  ferrocerium  flint age  flint corn  

hard-hearted  heartless  

gunflint  

city  metropolis  river  urban center  

Clint  Schwindt  clint  dint  glint  

agate  basalt  bronze  chalk  clay  

adamant  bone  brand  brick  butane lighter  

flinted  flints