Flint - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: flintFlint glass
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...
Calyon
Flint or pebble stone used in building walls etc...
Firestone
Iron pyrites formerly used for striking fire also a flint...
Flint
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...
Flint hearted
Hard hearted...
Flintlock
A lock for a gun or pistol having a flint fixed in the hammer which on striking the steel ignites the priming...
Flintware
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely...
Flinty
Consisting of composed of abounding in or resembling flint as a flinty rock flinty ground a flinty heart...
Frizel
A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint to throw sparks into the pan in an early form of flintlock...
Gunflint
A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun to ignite the charge It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps...
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