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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used,
        esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding,
        like flint. "A heart of flint." --Spenser.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.]
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flint
       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 River}]
       3: a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit;
          automobile manufacturing

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).
     

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  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

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  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
  

















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