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An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak.

tion or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

s composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.

hich the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint. -- De*riv"a*tive*ly, adv. -- De*riv"a*tive*ness, n.

A very diminutive person; a dwarf. Elf arrow, a flint arrowhead; - - so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room o…

pward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint.

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

omething new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

ods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. [Obs.]

A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.

To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

n cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.

hay while the sun shines. Camden. Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. C. L. Flint. Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. -- Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnoea, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons. It has been…

A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.