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- English Word Stimulate Definition To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.
- English Word Stimulate Definition To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.
- English Word Stimulated Definition of Stimulate
- English Word Stimulating Definition of Stimulate
- English Word Stimulation Definition The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.
- English Word Stimulation Definition The irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation.
- English Word Stimulative Definition Having the quality of stimulating.
- English Word Stimulative Definition That which stimulates.
- English Word Stimulator Definition One who stimulates.
- English Word Stimulatress Definition A woman who stimulates.
- English Word Stimuli Definition of Stimulus
- English Word Stimulism Definition The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.
- English Word Stimulism Definition The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.
- English Word Stimulus Definition A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.
- English Word Stimulus Definition That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.
- English Word Sting Definition Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
- English Word Sting Definition A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
- English Word Sting Definition Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
- English Word Sting Definition The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- English Word Sting Definition A goad; incitement.
- English Word Sting Definition The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- English Word Sting Definition To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
- English Word Sting Definition To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
- English Word Sting Definition To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
- English Word Stingaree Definition Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.
- English Word Stingbull Definition The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
- English Word Stinger Definition One who, or that which, stings.
- English Word Stingfish Definition The weever.
- English Word Stingily Definition In a stingy manner.
- English Word Stinginess Definition The quality or state of being stingy.