A variety of chert , often black because of included organic matter.

Old English flint "flint; a type of rock noted for hardness and for giving off sparks when struck," common Germanic (cognates Middle Dutch vlint, Old High German flins, Danish flint), from P [..]

Flint [N] [S]abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings. In Isaiah 50:7 and Ezekiel 3:9 the expressions, where the word is used, means that the "M [..]

hard stone that sparks when struck with steel.

Hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock used by early humans to manufacture stone tools, such as spear and dart points, knives, and other utilitarian tools. Late stone-age people also struck flint to make [..]

a very hard kind of stone which gives off sparks when you strike it with steel

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a well-known stone, a variety of quartz. It is extremely hard, and strikes fire. It was very abundant in and about Palestine.

Captain of the SlytherinQuidditch team.

Dense, fine-grained, naturally occurring form of silica that fractures conchoidally.

silex silicis (med. cilicis)

To skin a flint. To act meanly, and exact the uttermost farthing.

A form of chert usually found in accumulations of chalk.

A hard, sedimentary,

n. "flint," s.v. flint sb. OED. KEY: flint@n

n 2 flint 1 flyntes 1

3 Diamonds - Flint 3 Clubs - Flint Two Diamonds Modified These conventional methods were devised by Mr. Jeremy Flint of England to permit the partnership to stop the auction below game if necessary, b [..]

a three-diamond response to a two-notrump opening, preparatory to signoff in a major suit

Flint is a glassy stone, which was commonly used in the prehistoric

see lithic materials

A hard glassy rock which flakes easily and can be worked to produce a sharp cutting edge. Used in prehistoric times for the manufacture of tools and weapons such as scrapers and arrowheads

A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark. A small cylinder of some other material o [..]

A city in Michigan An unincorporated community in Texas A town in Flintshire, Wales, at the estuary of the River Dee ----

From the English vocabulary word, from Old English flint.