Part 4390

<blockquote>And crop-full, out of doors he <b>flings</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I <b>flung</b> closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, <b>flings</b> to sheath. <i>Mrs. Browning.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To fling out</col>, <cd>to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fling</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Fling</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; <as>as, the <ex>fling</ex> of a horse</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.</def>

<blockquote>I, who love to have a <b>fling</b>, Both at senate house and king. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A kind of dance; <as>as, the Highland <ex>fling</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A trifing matter; an object of contempt.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>England were but a <b>fling</b> Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing. <i>Old Proverb.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To have one's fling</col>, <cd>to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation.</cd> <i>J. H. Newman.</i> "When I was as young as you, I <i>had my fling</i>. I led a life of pleasure." <i>D. Jerrold.</i></cs>

<h1>Flingdust</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Fling"dust`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Flinger</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Fling"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who flings; one who jeers.</def>

<h1>Flint</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flint</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>flint</ets>, akin to Sw. <ets>flinta</ets>, Dan. <ets>flint</ets>; cf. OHG. <ets>flins</ets> flint, G. <ets>flinte</ets> gun (cf. E. <ets>flint</ets>lock), perh. akin to Gr. <?/ brick. Cf. <er>Plinth</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.</def> "A heart of <i>flint</i>."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<cs><col>Flint age</col>. <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <cd>Same as <cref>Stone age</cref>, under <er>Stone</er>.</cd> -- <col>Flint brick</col>, <cd>a fire made principially of powdered silex.</cd> -- <col>Flint glass</col>. <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Flint implements</col> <fld>(Arch\'91ol.)</fld>, <cd>tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones.</cd> -- <col>Flint mill</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Pottery)</fld> <cd>A mill in which flints are ground.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <cd>An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> -- <col>Flint stone</col>, <cd>a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.</cd> -- <col>Flint wall</col>, <cd>a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.</cd> -- <col>Liquor of flints</col>, <cd>a solution of silica, or flints, in potash.</cd> -- <col>To skin a flint</col>, <cd>to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Flint glass</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flint" glass`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>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 <altname>crystal glass</altname>. Cf. <er>Glass</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; The concave or diverging half on an achromatic lens is usually made of <i>flint glass</i>.</note>

<h1>Flint-hearted</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flint"-heart`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Hard-hearted.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>