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• Flint

  ·noun Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. II. Flint ·noun A piece o...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Flint

  Abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings. In Isa. 50:7...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Flint

  a well-known stone, a variety of quartz. It is extremely hard, and strikes fire. It was very abundan...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Flint glass

  ·- A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Flint-hearted

  ·adj Hard-hearted. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Flint, Robert

  D.D., LL.D. (b. 1838) Writer on philosophy, sociology, and theology. Philosophy of History in Euro...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• skin flint

  An avaricious man or woman, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• skin-flint

  A niggardly, close-fisted person--one so parsimoniously mean, that he would perform that operation w...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• to fix one's flint

  is a phrase taken from backwoods life, and means the same as to settle; to do for; to dish. "Take i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.