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flint

[flint]

–noun

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.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to furnish with flint.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE; c. MD vlint, Dan flint; cf. plinth

Related forms:

flintlike, adjective

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[flint]

–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.

[flint-sheer, -sher]

–noun

a historic county in Clwyd, in NE Wales.

Also called Flint.

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flint (flĭnt)

A very hard, fine-grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel.
1. A piece of flint used to produce a spark.
2. A small solid cylinder of a spark-producing alloy, used in lighters to ignite the fuel.
A piece of flint used as a tool by prehistoric humans.
Something resembling flint in hardness: a jaw of flint.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

flint (flĭnt) Pronunciation Key

A very hard, gray to black variety of chalcedony that makes sparks when it is struck with steel. It breaks with a conchoidal fracture.
The dark gray to black variety of chert.

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