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  • English Word Stinging Definition of Sting
  • English Word Stinging Definition Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
  • English Word Stingless Definition Having no sting.
  • English Word Stingo Definition Old beer; sharp or strong liquor.
  • English Word Stingtail Definition A sting ray.
  • English Word Stingy Definition Stinging; able to sting.
  • English Word Stingy Definition Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
  • English Word Stink Definition To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
  • English Word Stink Definition To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
  • English Word Stink Definition A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
  • English Word Stinkard Definition A mean, stinking, paltry fellow.
  • English Word Stinkard Definition The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.
  • English Word Stinkball Definition A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
  • English Word Stinker Definition One who, or that which, stinks.
  • English Word Stinker Definition Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
  • English Word Stinkhorn Definition A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.
  • English Word Stinking Definition of Stink
  • English Word Stinking Definition a. & n. from Stink, v.
  • English Word Stinkingly Definition In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.
  • English Word Stinkpot Definition An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.
  • English Word Stinkpot Definition A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.
  • English Word Stinkpot Definition The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.
  • English Word Stinkstone Definition One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.
  • English Word Stinkweed Definition Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
  • English Word Stinkwood Definition A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
  • English Word Stint Definition 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. Called also pume.
  • English Word Stint Definition A phalarope.
  • English Word Stint Definition To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  • English Word Stint Definition To put an end to; to stop.
  • English Word Stint Definition To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.