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hree objects his heart was set. Macaulay. Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. Tennyson.

t once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects. Locke.

A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.]

One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.

A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.

A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

ldings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.

yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind. I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine. Shak. The meek or soft shall inherit the earth. Tyndale.

Somewhat soft. De Witt Clinton.

A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.

A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

A spelk, or splinter. [Obs.] Holland.

A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle. Splenial bone (Anat.), a thin splintlike bone on the inner side of the proximal portion of the mandible of many vertebrates.

nt coal, an inferior kind of cannel coal from Scotch collieries; -- called also splent, splint, and splint coal.

A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.

ch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arcg over a lintel. -- To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under Watchman. -- To spring the luff (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel. Mar. Dict. -- To s…

A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.

A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.