Definition of Flnt
Flint, 1, a maritime county (77) of North Wales, between Lancashire
and Denbigh, of which a detached portion lies to the N. of Shropshire;
low stretches of sand form its foreshore, but inland it is hilly, with
here and there a picturesque and fertile valley in which dairy-farming is
extensively carried on. 2, a seaport (5), on the estuary of the Dee, 13
m. NW. of Chester; has ruins of a castle with interesting historical
associations; in the neighbourhood are copper-works and lead and coal
mines.
- Wikipedia
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 (Archæol.), 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.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that generates sparks when struck.
- A piece of flint, used to produce a spark.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter etc.
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