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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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A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.
superl.
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
n.
The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
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Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
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Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
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A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
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A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
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A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
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A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
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A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
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Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
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Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
n.
That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
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A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
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The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
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One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.
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A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.
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A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
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A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
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