Definition of flint

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Flint (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks..

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Flittermouse :: Flittermouse (n.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse..
Sycoceric :: Sycite (n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig..
Flinty :: Flinty (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart..
Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Spongiopilin :: Spongiolite (n.) One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints..
Cherty :: Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
Fusee :: Fusee (n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..
Chert :: Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color..
Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..
Skinflint :: Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
Chrysoprase :: Chrysoprase (n.) An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry..
Lock :: Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..
Litharge :: Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot..
Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use..
Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..
Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..
Firestone :: Firestone (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint..
Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies..
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