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flint

Pronunciation: (flint), [key]
—n.
1. a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
2. a piece of this, esp. as used for striking fire.
3. a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
4. something very hard or unyielding.
5. a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.

—v.t.
to furnish with flint.

Flint

Pronunciation: (flint), [key]
—n.
1. Austin, 1812–86, U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges.
2. his sonAustin, 1836–1915, U.S. physiologist and physician.
3. a city in SE Michigan. 159,611.
4. Flintshire.

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