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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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n.
The act of flinching.
n.
One who flings; one who jeers.
v. i.
To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
adv.
In a flinching manner.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fling
v. i.
To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
n.
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
n.
A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Flinch
n.
One who flinches or fails.
n.
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
n.
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
n.
A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
superl.
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
n.
A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
n.
A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
v. i.
To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
n.
The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
v. t.
To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
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