4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flint \Flint\, n. [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}.]
1. (Min.) 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.
2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used
esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible and unyielding,
like flint. ``A heart of flint.'' --Spenser.
{Flint age}. (Geol.) Same as {Stone age}, under {Stone}.
{Flint brick}, a fire made principially of powdered silex.
{Flint glass}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Flint implements} (Arch[ae]ol.), 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.
{Flint mill}.
a (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground.
b (Mining) 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. --Knight.
{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. [Colloq.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
flint
n : a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than
chalcedony
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Flint, MI (city, FIPS 29000)
Location: 43.02285 N, 83.69280 W
Population (1990): 140761 (58724 housing units)
Area: 87.6 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 48502, 48503, 48505, 48507
Flint, TX
Zip code(s): 75762
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Flint
abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the
forty years' wanderings. In Isa. 50:7 and Ezek. 3:9 the
expressions, where the word is used means that the "Messiah
would be firm and resolute amidst all contempt and scorn which
he would meet that he had made up his mind to endure it and
would not shrink from any kind or degree of suffering which
would be necessary to accomplish the great work in which he was
engaged." (Comp. Ezek. 3:8, 9.) The words "like a flint" are
used with reference to the hoofs of horses (Isa. 5:28).
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