flint : Idioms & Phrases

• . (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone.

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• a fire made principially of powdered silex.

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• noun corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
  flint corn; Yankee corn; Zea mays indurata.
  

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• noun optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index
  flint glass.
  

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

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• (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.

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• noun corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
  flint corn; Yankee corn; Zea mays indurata.
  

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• . (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.

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• 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
  Flint.
  

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• a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.

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• 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.

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Flint"-heart`ed adjective

Definitions

1. Hard-hearted. Shak.

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• (Min.), an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous variety of quartz.

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

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• (Old Chem.), soluble glass; so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.

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• noun optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index
  flint glass.
  

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

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