Vocabulary : Flinching to Flint glass

Flinching : of Flinch
Flinchingly : In a flinching manner.
Flindermouse : A bat; a flittermouse.
Flinders : Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
Fling : To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. ;; To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. ;; To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. ;; To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling. ;; To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling. ;; To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste. ;; A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse. ;; A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm. ;; A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling. ;; A trifing matter; an object of contempt.

Flingdust : One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
Flinger : One who flings; one who jeers.
Flinging : of Fling
Flint : 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. ;; A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. ;; Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
Flint glass : 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.

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