blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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clintonia | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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flint | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony |
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(noun) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony | - |
flinthead | (noun) an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics | Synonyms: Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork |
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flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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(noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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flinty | (adjective) containing flint | - |
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(adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, granitic, obdurate, stony |
glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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(noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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gunflint | (noun) the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon | - |
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lint | (noun) cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds | - |
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(noun) fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers | - |
lintel | (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: header |
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lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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plinth | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, pedestal |
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skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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splint | (noun) an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg) | - |
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(noun) a thin sliver of wood | - |
(verb) support with a splint | - |
splinter | (noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: sliver |
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(verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: sliver |
(verb) withdraw from an organization or communion | Synonyms: break away, secede |
(verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: sliver |
splintering | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, chipping |
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splinterless | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterproof |
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splinterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterless |
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splinters | (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: matchwood |
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splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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(adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |