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

Related forms:
flintlike, adjective
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Flint

  [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⋅shire

  [flint-sheer, -sher]
–noun
a historic county in Clwyd, in NE Wales.
Also called Flint.
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flint   (flĭnt)   
n.  

  1. 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.

  3. A piece of flint used as a tool by prehistoric humans.

  4. Something resembling flint in hardness: a jaw of flint.


[Middle English, from Old English.]
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Word Origin & History

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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Science Dictionary
flint   (flĭnt)  Pronunciation Key 

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

  2. The dark gray to black variety of chert.


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