Webster's Dictionary 1913

9910

Stingtail

Sting″tail′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A sting ray.

9911

Stingy

Sting″y (?), a. Stinging; able to sting.

9912

Stingy (2)

Stin″gy (?), a. [Compar.Stingier (?); superl.Stingiest.] [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or c...

9913

Stink

Stink (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Stunk (?), Stank (�), p. pr. & vb. n.Stinking.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink...

9914

Stink (2)

Stink, v. t. To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

9915

Stink (3)

Stink, n. [AS. stinc.] A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.Fire stink. See under Fire. — Stink-fire lance. See under Lance. — Stink rat(Zoöl.), the musk turtl...

9916

Stinkard

Stink″ard (?), n. 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.2. (Zoöl.) The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.

9917

Stinkball

Stink″ball′ (?), n. A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; — used formerly in naval warfare.

9918

Stinker

Stink″er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, stinks.2. (Zoöl.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive o...

9919

Stinkhorn

Stink″horn′ (?), n.(Bot.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.

9920

Stinking

Stink″ing, a. & n. from Stink, v.Stinking badger(Zoöl.), the teledu. — Stinking cedar(Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).

9921

Stinkingly

Stink″ing‐ly, adv. In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

9922

Stinkpot

Stink″pot′ (?), n. 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, — sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.2. ...

9923

Stinkstone

Stink″stone′ (?), n.(Min.) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; — called also swinestone.

9924

Stinkweed

Stink″weed′ (?), n.(Bot.) Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.

9925

Stinkwood

Stink″wood′ (?), n.(Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Fœtidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocote...

9926

Stint

Stint (?), n.(Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Cal...

9927

Stint (2)

Stint, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n.Stinting.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; ak...

9928

Stint (3)

Stint, v. i. To stop; to cease.They can not stint till no thing be left. Chaucer.And stint thou too, I pray thee. Shak.The damsel stinted in her song. Sir W. Scott.

9929

Stint (4)

Stint, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.] 1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. South.2. Quantity or task ...

9930

Stintance

Stint″ance (?), n. Restraint; stoppage.

9931

Stintedness

Stint″ed‐ness, n. The state of being stinted.

9932

Stinter

Stint″er (?), n. One who, or that which, stints.

9933

Stintless

Stint″less, a. Without stint or restraint.The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.

9934

Stipe

Stipe (?), n. [L. stipes a stock, post, branch: cf. F. stipe.] (Bot.) (a) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern. (b) The stalk of a pistil. (c) The trunk of a tree. (d) ...

9935

Stipel

Sti″pel (?), n. [See Stipule.] (Bot.) The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.

9936

Stipellate

Sti‐pel″late (?), a.(Bot.) Having stipels.