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

dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.

Hard-hearted. Shak.

The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.

An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott.

nd concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope…

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.

of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.

pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would m…

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]

pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. Haliwell.

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

Like chert; containing chert; flinty.