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and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.

A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

See Linnet. Tennyson.

See Linseed.

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 glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

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

(Arch.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.…

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

A piece split off; a splinter.

To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott.

Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.

Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.