[flint] 
| 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. |
[flint] | 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 (flĭnt) n.
[Middle English, from Old English.] |
| Flint (flĭnt) 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: 117,000. |
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).
