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A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.
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n.
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
v. i.
To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
v. i.
To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
adv.
In a flinching manner.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fling
n.
The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
n.
A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
n.
A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
n.
One who flinches or fails.
n.
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
n.
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
n.
The act of flinching.
superl.
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
v. i.
To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
v. t.
To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
n.
One who flings; one who jeers.
n.
A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Flinch
n.
A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
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