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flint 
[flint] Pronunciation Key
[flint] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous. |
| 2. | a piece of this, esp. as used for striking fire. |
| 3. | a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck. |
| 4. | something very hard or unyielding. |
| 5. | a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter. |
| 6. | to furnish with flint. |
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Flint
[flint] Pronunciation Key
[flint] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Austin, 1812–86, U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges. |
| 2. | his son Austin, 1836–1915, U.S. physiologist and physician. |
| 3. | a city in SE Michigan. 159,611. |
| 4. | Flintshire. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| flint
(flĭnt) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English, from Old English.] |
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| Flint
(flĭnt) Pronunciation Key
A city of southeast-central Michigan north-northwest of Detroit. Founded on the site of a fur-trading post established in 1819, it became an automobile-manufacturing center in the early 1900s. Population: 119,000. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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flint
O.E. flint "flint, rock," common Gmc. (cf. M.Du. vlint, O.H.G. flins, Dan. flint), from PIE *splind- "to split, cleave," from base *(s)plei- "to splice, split" (cf. Gk. plinthos "brick, tile," O.Ir. slind "brick"). Transferred senses were in O.E. Flintlock as a type of musket-firing mechanism is from 1683. Flinty "hard-hearted" is from 1536.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| flint | |
adjective | |
| 1. | showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty] |
noun | |
| 1. | a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony |
| 2. | a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River |
| 3. | a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing |
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
flint
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U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This
Flint Hill, VA Zip code(s): 22627
Flint City, AL (town, FIPS 26800) Location: 34.51550 N, 86.97279 W
Population (1990): 1033 (326 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Flint Hill, MO (village, FIPS 24688) Location: 38.85480 N, 90.85536 W
Population (1990): 229 (83 housing units)
Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.]
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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