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1. William Jefferson Clinton, b. 1946. The 42d president of the United States, from 1993-. Also known as Bill Clinton. [ Prop. ] [ PJC ]

2. Hillary Rodham Clinton, b. 1947. Attorney and wife of Bill Clinton, the 42d president of the United States. [ Prop. ] [ PJC ]

n. any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.
Syn. -- Clinton's lily. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the economic policies of president Bill Clinton. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. &unr_; brick. Cf. Plinth. ] 1. (Min.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. “A heart of flint.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flint age. (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone. --
Flint brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex. --
Flint glass. See in the Vocabulary. --
Flint implements (Archæol.), 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. --
Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) 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. Knight. --
Flint stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. --
Flint wall, 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. --
Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. --
To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The concave or diverging half on an achromatic lens is usually made of flint glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hard-hearted. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Flintier superl. Flintiest. ] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flinty rock, or
Flinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. glent. ] A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [ Scot. ] “He saw a glint of light.” Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Glinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glinting. ] [ OE. glenten. Cf. Glance, v. i., Glitter, v. i. ] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; as, glinting eyes; glinting water.
Syn. -- aglitter(predicate), fulgid, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, scintillescent, sparkling(prenominal), sparkly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. līnet flax, hemp, fr. līn flax; or, perh. borrowed fr. L. linteum a linen cloth, linen, from linteus linen, a., fr. linum flax, lint. See Linen. ] 1. Flax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. lintel, F. linteau, LL. lintellus, for limitellus, a dim. fr. L. limes limit. See Limit. ] (Arch.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Linseed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ AS. līnetwige. See Linnet. ] (Zool.) See Linnet. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. plinthus, Gr. &unr_; a brick or tile, a plinth, perh. akin to E. flint: cf. F. plinthe. ] (Arch.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Skin + flint. ] A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to D. splinter, G. splinter, splitter, Dan. splint, Sw. splint a kind of spike, a forelock (in nautical use), Sw. splintato splint, splinter, Dan. splinte, and E. split. See Split, v. t., and cf. Splent. ] 1. A piece split off; a splinter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) A splint bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Far.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anc. Armor.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Splint armor, a kind of ancient armor formed of thin plates of metal, usually overlapping each other and allowing the limbs to move freely. --
Splint bone (Anat.), one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones on either side of the cannon bone in the limbs of the horse and allied animals. --
Splint coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Splinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Splinting. ] To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver. [ Obs. or R. ] Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Splintered p. pr. & vb. n. Splintering. ] [ Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See Splint, n., Split. ] 1. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. Bp. Wren. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become split into long pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Splinter, v., or Splint, n. ] A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Splinter bar. (a) A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs. (b) The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mil.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells. [ 1913 Webster ]