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Webster 1913 Edition
Flinty
Flint′y
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Flintier
; sup
erl.
Flintiest
.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint;
as, a
flinty
rock; flinty
ground; a flinty
heart.Flinty rock
, or Flinty state
a siliceous slate; – basanite is here included. See
Basanite
.Webster 1828 Edition
Flinty
FLINT'Y
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of flint; as a flinty rock.2.
Like flint; very hard, not impressible; as a flinty heart.3.
Cruel; unmerciful; inexorable.4.
Full of flint stones, as flinty ground.Flinty-slate, a mineral of two kinds, the common and the Lydian stone.