flint (n.)

  1. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

  2. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

    [ Syn: flint , flint river ]

  3. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

    [ Syn: flint ]

    flint (adj.)

  1. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; his flinty gaze; the childs misery would move even the most obdurate heart

    [ Syn: flinty , granitic , obdurate , stony ]

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