Liquor of flints

Flint \Flint\, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint;
   cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh.
   akin to Gr. ? 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.
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   2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used,
      esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
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   3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding,
      like flint. "A heart of flint." --Spenser.
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   {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} (Arch[ae]ol.), 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.]
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Liquor \Liq"uor\ (l[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [OE. licour, licur, OF.
   licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid.
   See {Liquid}, and cf. {Liqueur}.]
   1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice,
      or the like.
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   2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either
      distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer,
      etc.
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   3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; --
      distinguished from {tincture} and {aqua}.
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   Note: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia includes, in this class of
         preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in
         which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in
         water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is
         gaseous or very volatile, as in the aqu[ae] or waters.
         --U. S. Disp.
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   {Labarraque's liquor} (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline
      hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching
      and as a disinfectant.

   {Liquor of flints}, or {Liquor silicum} (Old Chem.), soluble
      glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered
      flints. See {Soluble glass}, under {Glass}.

   {Liquor of Libavius}. (Old Chem.) See {Fuming liquor of
      Libavius}, under {Fuming}.

   {Liquor sanguinis} (s[a^]n"gw[i^]n*[i^]s), (Physiol.), the
      blood plasma.

   {Liquor thief}, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a
      cask through the bung hole.

   {To be in liquor}, to be intoxicated.
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