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- English Word Flint Definition A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
- English Word Flint Definition Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
- English Word Flint glass Definition 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.
- English Word Flint-hearted Definition Hard-hearted.
- English Word Flintiness Definition The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
- English Word Flintlock Definition A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
- English Word Flintlock Definition A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
- English Word Flintware Definition A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
- English Word Flintwood Definition An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
- English Word Flinty Definition Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
- English Word Flip Definition A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
- English Word Flip Definition To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
- English Word Flip-flap Definition The repeated stroke of something long and loose.
- English Word Flip-flap Definition With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
- English Word Flipe Definition To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.
- English Word Flippancy Definition The state or quality of being flippant.
- English Word Flippant Definition Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
- English Word Flippant Definition Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
- English Word Flippant Definition A flippant person.
- English Word Flippantly Definition In a flippant manner.
- English Word Flippantness Definition State or quality of being flippant.
- English Word Flipped Definition of Flip
- English Word Flipper Definition A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
- English Word Flipper Definition The hand.
- English Word Flipping Definition of Flip
- English Word Flirt Definition To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
- English Word Flirt Definition To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
- English Word Flirt Definition To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
- English Word Flirt Definition To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
- English Word Flirt Definition To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.