v. [f. FLINT sb. + -(I)FY.] To turn to flint. Hence Flintified ppl. a., Flintifying vbl. sb. or ppl. a.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 447. There is no partial impregnation nor any gradation of the flintyfying operation.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, III. iv. 62. Broad as his back was, perpetual thump of rugged and flintified knobs and edges [of oysters], through the flag-basket strapped over his neck, was beginning to tell upon his stanch but jolted spine.
