ppl. a. Obs. [f. FLINT sb. + -ED2; cf. MDa. flinted in sense 2.]
1. Of or consisting of flint.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 32.
| Then flinted stones and barked tree, | |
| The sauage beasts on mountaine bred: | |
| Shall waile my wofull hap by thee, | |
| As simple lambe to slaughter led. |
2. Hard, cruel, unfeeling.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 79.
| Wee fle the rocks of Ithack, and coast of Princelye Laërtes, | |
| Also we the byrth place detest of flinted Vlisses. |
1587. M. Grove, Pelops & Hipp. (1878), 35.
| Would it not moue a frozen heart | |
| yea flinted for to bowe, | |
| To haue in armes such damsells as, | |
| are rare I make a vowe? |
