flint

flint
    adj 1: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his
           flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the
           most obdurate heart" [syn: {flinty}, {flint}, {granitic},
           {obdurate}, {stony}]
    n 1: a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than
         chalcedony
    2: 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}, {Flint River}]
    3: a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile
       manufacturing
    

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}.]
   1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in
      color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking
      with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very
      hard, and strikes fire with steel.
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   2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used,
      esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
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   3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding,
      like flint. "A heart of flint." --Spenser.
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   {Flint age}. (Geol.) Same as {Stone age}, under {Stone}.

   {Flint brick}, a fire made principially of powdered silex.

   {Flint glass}. See in the Vocabulary.

   {Flint implements} (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by
      men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows,
      spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of
      flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard
      stones.

   {Flint mill}.
      (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground.
      (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner
          at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were
          made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light,
          but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight.

   {Flint stone}, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.

   {Flint wall}, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face
      of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints
      set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.

   {Liquor of flints}, a solution of silica, or flints, in
      potash.

   {To skin a flint}, to be capable of, or guilty of, any
      expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]
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Flint
abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the
forty years' wanderings. In Isa. 50:7 and Ezek. 3:9 the
expressions, where the word is used, means that the "Messiah
would be firm and resolute amidst all contempt and scorn which
he would meet; that he had made up his mind to endure it, and
would not shrink from any kind or degree of suffering which
would be necessary to accomplish the great work in which he was
engaged." (Comp. Ezek. 3:8, 9.) The words "like a flint" are
used with reference to the hoofs of horses (Isa. 5:28).
    

Flint, MI (city, FIPS 29000)
  Location: 43.02285 N, 83.69280 W
  Population (1990): 140761 (58724 housing units)
  Area: 87.6 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 48502, 48503, 48505, 48507
Flint, TX
  Zip code(s): 75762
    

Flint, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
   Population (2000):    124943
   Housing Units (2000): 55464
   Land area (2000):     33.632912 sq. miles (87.108838 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.429835 sq. miles (1.113267 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    34.062747 sq. miles (88.222105 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            29000
   Located within:       Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
   Location:             43.027577 N, 83.693996 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     48502 48503 48505 48507
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Flint, MI
    Flint
    

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "flint":
      adamant, bone, brand, brick, butane lighter, cement,
      cigarette lighter, concrete, diamond, firebrand, flambeau,
      flint and steel, granite, heart of oak, igniter, iron, light,
      lighter, marble, nails, oak, portfire, rock, sparker, spill, steel,
      stone, taper, torch