Flint Meaning in Spanish

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1. (n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
2. (n.) 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.
3. (n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

1. () 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.

1. (a.) Hard-hearted.

1. (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

1. (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
2. (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

1. (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

1. (n.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

1. (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.