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To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

ly on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault.

A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig. [Obs.]

A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.

od"] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained. Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.). Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and life of man. Gladstone. Ascetic theology, Natural theology. See Ascetic, Natural. -- Moral th…

ut sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

Not easily; hardly; scarcely. [Obs.] Uneath may she endure the flinty streets. Shak.

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

t intentions or honorable purposes. Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the wellintentioned party. Macaulay.

letter lock. See under Letter. (b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel. (c) A kind of brake a carriage. -- Wheel ore (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the shape of its twin crystals. See Bournonite. -- Wheel pit (Steam Engine), a pit…

ate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.