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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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Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
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A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
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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 piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
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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 This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.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 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 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.
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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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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.
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Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
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The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
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The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
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A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
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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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Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
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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.
n.
That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
n.
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
superl.
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
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