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Definitions for Flint

[1] a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
[2] a piece of this, especially as used for striking fire.
[3] a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
[4] something very hard or unyielding.
[5] a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.
[6] to furnish with flint.
[7] Austin, 1812–86, U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges.
[8] his son Austin, 1836–1915, U.S. physiologist and physician.
[9] a city in SE Michigan.
[10] Flintshire.
[11] an impure opaque microcrystalline greyish-black form of quartz that occurs in chalk. It produces sparks when struck with steel and is used in the manufacture of pottery, flint glass, and road-construction materials. Formula: SiO 2
[12] any piece of flint, esp one used as a primitive tool or for striking fire
[13] a small cylindrical piece of an iron alloy, used in cigarette lighters
[14] Also called: flint glass , white flint colourless glass other than plate glass
[15] See optical flint
[16] (tr) to fit or provide with a flint
[17] a town in NE Wales, in Flintshire, on the Dee estuary. Pop: 11 936 (2001)
[18] a city in SE Michigan: closure of the car production plants led to a high level of unemployment. Pop: 120 292 (2003 est)

Words nearby Flint

flinders range, fling, fling (throw) down the gauntlet, fling oneself at someone, flinger, flint, flint corn, flint glass, flint's murmur, flinthead, flintlock

Origin of Flint

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Middle Dutch vlint, Danish flint; cf. plinth

Other words from Flint

flint·like , adjective

Word origin for Flint

Old English; related to Old High German flins , Old Swedish flinta splinter of stone, Latin splendēre to shine