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Clents. 



Icel. " Jclettr, a rock, a cliii, in plur. a range of crags." Cleasby. 

 Suio-Goth. Mett. '■' Klint, scopulus, vertex montis excelsioris; 

 on account of the double consonant the Swedes have inserted an 

 n in Mett and made it Mint, radix est Gr. kXltvs, clivus. JTlettra, 

 per ardua eniti, scandere montes." Ger. Tclettern ; Belg. Mauern; 

 C. B. Itethr ; Dan. Mint, a promontory, brow of a hill; Sw. Mint, 

 top of a mountain. Lat. clivus. (^'Docet Scaliger ad Festum 

 clitellas apud veteres Eomanos pro locis declivibus dictas fuisse." 

 Ihre.) 



!^[ot in Bosworth or in Lye. 



" Glints, hard or flinty rocks, crevices among bare limestone 

 rocks. It is the same with Suio-Goth. Mint, scopulus, vertex 

 montis excelsioris. Ihre considers Gr. kXitv's, clivus, as the root." 

 Jamieson's Diet. 



" Clet, clett, a rock or cliff in the sea broken off from the 

 adjoining rocks on the shore." Caithn. 



" Clint. 1. A hard or flinty rock. So. of Scotl. 



2. Any pretty large stone of a hard kind, 



3. The designation given to a rough coarse stone 



always first thrown off in curling. 



4. Glints, plur. limited to the shelves at the side of 



a river." 



'■'■ Klint, a rough stone, an outlying stone, Tweedd." Jamie- 

 son's Suppl. 



" Clints, crevices among bare limestone rocks. North." Halli- 

 well. Brockett gives the same definition. 



A Scandinavian and specially a Swedish and Danish word, 

 not A.-S., naturalized in the North of England and in Scotland, 

 allied to cleugh and cliff, but derived from Greek kXitus. 



The English Minlcers, stones giving out a metallic sound when 

 struck, seems allied to clints. 



Examples : — 



Falcon Clints — rocky hill or promontory of the Falcon ; here 

 are high basaltic scars. 



