Definition of lint

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Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..

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Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.
Linament :: Linament (n.) Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers..
Footstall :: Footstall (n.) The plinth or base of a pillar.
Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..
Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.
Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..
Splintered :: Splint (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2..
Fusee :: Fusee (n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
Chrysoprase :: Chrysoprase (n.) An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry..
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..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..
Flue :: Flue (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair..
Splint :: Splinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splin.
Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..
Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..
Splinting :: Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splin.
Chert :: Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color..
Split :: Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral..
Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..
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