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flint
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Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz , categorized as a variety of chert . It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones . Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, ...
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n. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River [syn: Flint River ] a city in southeast ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Flint \Flint\, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. ? brick. Cf. Plinth .] (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had his great knife, a flint for striking fire, his bow, and a clutch of arrows. ▪ In a cist at Brahunisary in the Kildalton area there was a skeleton and a large quantity of flint flakes and chips. ▪ In Suffolk, most villas ...
Usage examples of flint.
His eyes were hard as flint rock when they swept her from head to toe, and Agate was sure they held no small amount of suspicion.
To describe the removal, Roujou used the word arrache, which means the flint had to be extracted with some force.
Attached to the belt by a loop was an ivory-handled flint knife in a rawhide sheath, and suspended from another loop, the lower section of a hollow black aurochs horn, a drinking cup that was a talisman of the Aurochs Hearth.
Dogs, some following such as flyed, some invading such as stood still, some tearing those which lay prostrate, but generally there were none which escaped cleare: Behold upon this another danger ensued, the Inhabitants of the Towne stood in their garrets and windowes, throwing great stones upon our heads, that wee could not tell whether it were best for us to avoyd the gaping mouthes of the Dogges at hand or the perill of the stones afarre, amongst whome there was one that hurled a great flint upon a woman, which sate upon my backe, who cryed out pitiously, desiring her husband to helpe her.
Damn, Flint, I got somebody on the com who says he wants to buy three biogens in the billion-kay range!
I remember in her story of Otho Bludge, the prehistoric artist, that she told us about certain woods he used to make handles for his flint chisels and other tools and household implements.
Then, as showtime neared, they returned to the ship, where Tojo donned his candy-striped jacket and straw boater, and Flint had a couple of lukewarm beers and a sandwich.
He had put the poor creature out of its misery, skinned and cleaned it with his flint knife, and brought the carcass back to the bothy for us to eat.
Flint just before she sat down with Bowles and the governor-general for the interview.
Quickly, she stuffed the sling into a fold of her wrap, raced to the cherry trees, cut away the outer bark with her flint knife, and scraped off long thin pieces of the inner cambium layer.
Starting in 1909, Moir found flint implements in and beneath the Red and Coralline Crags.
Lawrence told me that the vinegar I had was excellent, and that I could soak the stone myself, and he gave me three or four flints he had in his pocket.
As I wanted one, I told her to get the flint and steel, which she did, warning me in a modest voice that she was not dressed.
But he would have been justified in making such a statement only if he had found the flakes from better-looking eoliths in contact with their parent blocks of flint.
Seth Flint, it was possible to see the basic falseness of their relation towards life everywhere around them.