stingy 
The griping and stingy humour of the covetous. 
Stitliiinfltvl, Sermons, II. vii. 
3. Scanty: not full or plentiful. 
When your teams 
Drag home the *tiuy>/ harvest. 
L<>ti:'f>'tluw, Wayside Inn, Birds of Killingworth. 
= Syn. 2. Parsimonious, Jlixerly, etc. (see penurious), il- 
liberal, ungenerous, saving, chary. 
stink (stiiifik), r. prot. and pp. xtinik (pret. 
formerly stunk), ppr. xtiiikiHy. [< ME. stiiikru. 
xti/itkrn (prct. stank, stonk, pp. Ktiinl.Tii). < AS. 
xtinran (pret. static,, pp. xtuniTn). smell, have 
an odor, rise as vapor, = MD. D. xtiiikm = 
MLG. LG. stinken = OHG. stiucltan, smell, have 
an odor, MHG. G. stinken = S\v. atinkn = Dan. 
tttiiikr, have a bad smell, stink; of. Or. rdyyof, 
rancid. Perhaps connected with Icel. stiikkrn, 
spring, leap, sprinkle, but not with Goth, stiggk- 
wan, smite, thrust, strike ; cf . L. tangere, touch 
(see tact, tangent). Hence ult. stench 1 .] I. in- 
trans. To emit a strong offensive smell ; send 
out a disgusting odor: hence, to be in bad 
odor ; have a bad reputation ; be regarded with 
disfavor. 
And therwithal he stank so horribel. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 627. 
Fall Fate upon us. 
Our memories shall never stink behind us. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 7. 
Stinking badger, the stinkard or teledu. Stinking 
bunt! Same as stinking smut. Stinking camomile. 
Same as mayweed. Stinking cedar, a coniferous tree of 
the genus Torreya: so named from the strong peculiar 
odor of the wood and foliage, especially when bruised 
or burnt. -Most properly so called is T. taxtfolia, an ex- 
tremely local tree of western Florida, an evergreen of 
moderate size, with bright-yellow (or in old trees red- 
dish) wood susceptible of a flue polish, very durable in 
contact with the soil, and, where found, largely used for 
fence-posts. Also called savin. See cut under Torreya. 
The similar T. Cal(foriiica is the California nutmeg (see 
nutmeg). T. grandis of China, called kaya, affords a good 
timber. T. nuc\fera, a smaller Japanese species, yields 
a wood valued by coopers and turners, and a food-oil is 
expressed from its nuts. Also Mutiny yew. at.1n1ring 
crane's-bill. Same as htrb-robert. Stinking goose- 
foot. Same as notchu'eed. Stinking hellebore, hoar- 
hound. See the nouns. Stinking mayweed, the com- 
mon mayweed. Stinking nightshade, same as hen- 
bane. Stinking nutmeg, the California nutmeg, one 
of the stinking cedars. See nutmeg Stinking smut. 
See smut, 3. Stinking vervain, the guinea-hen weed. 
See PeKoeria. Stinking yew. Same as stinting cedar. 
II. trans. To annoy with an offensive smell; 
affect in any way by an offensive odor. Imp. 
Diet. 
stink (stingk), n. [< ME. stinke, stynk, stynke ; 
from the verb. Cf. stench 1 .] 1. A strong of- 
fensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench. 
And fro him comethe out Smoke and Stynk and Fuyr, 
and so moche Abhomynacioun that nnethe no man may 
there endure. Mandeeille, Travels, p. 282. 
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, 
And pavements tanged with murderous stones, 
And rags, and hags, nd hideous wenches 
I counted two and seventy stenches, 
All well-defined and several stink* ! 
Coleridge, Cologne. 
2f. Hell, regarded as a region of sulphurous 
smells (or of infamy ?). 
So have I doon in erthe, alias the while 1 
That certes, but if thou my socour be, 
To stynk eterne he wol my gost exile. 
Chaucer, A. B. C., 1. 56. 
3. A disagreeable exposure. [Slang.] 
The newspapers of the district where he was then located 
had raised before the eye and mind of the public what 
the " patterers " of his class (genteel beggars] proverbially 
call a stink that is. had opened the eyes of the unwary 
to the movements of ' Chelsea George. 
Mayheic, London Labour and London Poor, I. 250. 
Fire stink, in coal-mining, a smell indicating the spon- 
taneous combustion of the coal or goaf somewhere in the 
mine. = Syn. 1. Stench, etc. See smell. 
Stink-alive (stingk'a-llv"), . The bib or pout, 
Gadus luseim: so called because it speedily pu- 
trefies after death. J. G. Wood. 
Stinkard (sting'kjird), .. [< stink + -ard.~[ If. 
One who stinks ; hence, a mean, paltry fellow. 
Your stinkard has the self-same liberty to be there in 
his tobacco-fumes which your sweet courtier hath. 
Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 133. 
That foolish knave, that hose and doublet stinkard. 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, v. 1. 
2. The stinking badger of Java, Mi/dans meli- 
ceps; the teledu. See cut under tele'dn. 3. In 
iehfh., a shark of the genus Mtistelus. 
stinkardlyt (sting'kjird-li), a. [< stinkard + 
-fy 1 .] Stinking; mean. 
You notorious stinkardly bearward. 
B. Janson, Epicome, iv. 1. 
Stink-ball (stingk'bal), ji. A preparation of 
pitch, resin, niter, gunpowder, colophony, asa- 
fetida, and other offensive and suffocating in- 
gredients, placed in earthen jars, formerly used 
5950 
for throwing upon an enemy's decks at close 
quarters, and still in use among Kiistcru pi- 
rates. 
Stink-bird (stingk'berd), n. The Imact/dn. 
11/iixtliiiriiinn.i criftlntiix. 
stink-bug (stingk'bug), n. Any one of several 
malodorous bugs, particularly the common 
squash-bug, Ana.ta trislin, of the r.,/v/>/,r. See 
cut under *qit/ixli-hiiij. 
Stinker (sting'ker), n. [< slink + -rr 1 .] 1. One 
who or that which stinks; a .stinkard : a stink- 
pot. 
The air may be purified ... by burning of stink-pots 
or stinkers in contagious lanes. Harvey, Consumptions. 
2. One of several large petrels, as the giant 
fulmar, Ot<xifra;in i/if/antea, which acquire an 
offensive odor from feeding on blubber or car- 
rion. 
stinkhorn (stingk'horn), n. [< xtink + litim.] 
In hot., a common name for certain ill-smelling 
fungi of the genus Phallus. The most common 
species is P. imjiudicus. See Phallus, 3. 
stinkingly (sting'king-li), arir. In a stinking 
manner; disgustingly; with an offensive smell. 
Stinking-weed (sting'king-wed), n. 1. A spe- 
cies of Casxia, C. occideiitalis, found distributed 
throughout the tropics : so called from its fetid 
leaves. Also stinking-wood. 2. The ragwort, 
Senecio Jacobeea. [Local, Scotland.] 
stinking-WOOd (sting'king-wud), . 1. Same 
as stin kini/-ireed, 1. 2. A leguminous shrub, 
Aiiagyrisj'ictidd, of southern Europe. 
stinkpot (stiugk'pot), . 1. A pot or jar of 
stinking materials; a chamber-pot. Smollett. 
2f. A receptacle containing a disinfectant. 
See the quotation under stinker. 3. A stink- 
ball. 4. The musk-turtle, Cinosternum odora- 
tum or Arontoehelys odorata, a stinking kind 
Stinkpot (CiriesfernHm ixieratHm or Aromothely 
of turtle common in some parts of the United 
States. It is a common inhabitant of the eastern and 
central streams of the country, and is very troublesome 
to fishermen by swallowing their bait. It is useful as a 
scavenger. 
stink-rat (stiugk' rat ),. The musk-turtle. See 
stinkpot, 4. [Local, U. S.] 
stink-shad (stingk'shad), . Same as mud- 
shad. 
stinkstone (stingk'ston), n. A variety of lime- 
stone which gives off a fetid odor when quar- 
ried or struck by a hammer. This odor comes from 
the escape of sulphureted hydrogen, and in most cases it 
seems to be caused by the decomposition of embedded or- 
ganic matter. In some quarries in the Carboniferous lime- 
stone of Ireland the smell has been found so overpowering 
that the men were sickened by it, and had to leave off work 
foratime. (Jukes.) Alsocalled/eKdlimeston^, andnn'ne- 
stone. 
Stink-trap (stingk'trap), n. A contrivance to 
prevent the escape of effluvia from the open- 
ings of drains ; a stench-trap. 
Stink-turtle (stingk'ter"tl), n. The musk-tur- 
tle. See stinkpot, 4. 
Stinkweed (stingk'wed), n. 1. An ill-smelling 
cruciferous plant, Diplotaxis muralis, of south- 
ern Europe. [Prov. Eng.] 2. The jimson- 
weed. 
stinkwqod (stiugk'wud), . One of several 
trees with fetid wood, (a) In South Africa, Ocotea 
bullgta (see Ocotea) and Celtis Kraussiana, the latter a tree 
20 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with a tough yellowish- 
white wood used for planks, cooperage, etc. (o) In Tas- 
mania, a shrub or tree, Zieria Smithii, also found in Aus- 
tralia, and sometimes called sand-fly bush, (c) In the 
Mascarene Islands, Faetidia ilaitritiana of the Myrtaeese, 
a tree from 20 to 40 feet high, whose wood is used for 
foundations, not being attacked by white ants. 
stint (stint), v. [Also obs. or dial, steal; < 
ME. stinten, stynten, stenttn, < AS. styntttii, 
make dull, blunt, orig. make short (also in 
comp.forstyntan, ge-stentan, warn, restrain) (= 
Icel. stytta (for *styta), shorten, = Sw. dial. 
stynta, shorten, = Norw. stytta, stutta, short- 
en, tuck up the clothes), < stunt, dull, obtuse, 
stupid, = Icel. stuttr = OSw. stunt = Norw. stutt, 
short: see stunt.'] I. trans. 1. To cause to 
stint 
cease; put an rnd to: stay: stop. [Obsolete 
or archaic.] 
Sey, "ill fuiyeven," ami xtiit/t is al this fart- [disturbance]. 
f'lmiin-r. Trnilus, iii. 1107. 
Mak<: uar luvnl peace, make peaee *tint uar. 
Slink., T. of A., v. 4. xs. 
si int thy babbling tnngiif! 
/>'. Ji'/itKii, Cynthia's Kevcls. i. 1. 
The thin jackals waiting for the feast 
fl their hungry howls as he passed by. 
\Y illiniH Morris, Earthly Taradise, I. 172. 
2f. To l>riii<j to a stand: stay; put a stop to. 
The kynges were stunted at the entre of the forest by a 
river, and tin r a*.srmblt;d alk- her jiujjle that thei myght 
haue. Mi-riiit (E. E. T. S.), ii. ir,4. 
3. To forbear; cease. 
Art thou a seruing nianV then seme againe, 
And flint to steale as common souldiotirs do. 
Gascoiyne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 67. 
S]ro not to spur, nor stint to ride, 
t'ntil thou come to fair Tweedside. 
Scott, L. of L. M., L 22. 
4. To limit; restrain; restrict; hence, to limit 
or confine to a scanty allowance : as, to stint 
one's self in food; to stint service or help. 
[He] trauels halfe a day without any refreshment then 
water, whereof wisely and temperately he stinted himselfe. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 135. 
Was the infinite One to be confined to this narrow space? 
Could His love be stinted to the few to whom He had es- 
pecially revealed His Will ? Channiny, Perfect Life, p. 61. 
5. To assign a definite task to ; prescribe a spe- 
cified amount of labor for: as, to stint a pupil 
or a servant. See stint, n., 2. 6. To cover or 
serve (a mare) successfully ; get with foal. See 
the quotation under stinted, 2. 
II. intrinis. 1. To cease ; desist ; stay ; stop ; 
hold. 
Of this cry they wolde nevere stenten. 
Chaucer, Knight s Tale, 1. 4.. 
He styntid not, nor neuer wold he sese, 
And with his swerd where that his stroke glynt, 
Owt of ther sadill full redely they went. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.X 1. 2420. 
And swears shell never stint. Shalt., Pericles, iv. 4. 42. 
2. To be saving or careful in expenditure. 
It 's in things for show they cut short ; while for such as 
me, It 's in things for life we ve to stint. 
Mrs. GaskeU, Mary Barton, vxxvii. 
Stint (stint), n. [Alsoobs. or dial, stent; (.stint. 
c.] 1. Limit; bound; limitation; restriction; 
restraint: as, common without stint (that is, 
without limitation or restriction as to the ex- 
tent of the pasturage, the number of cattle to 
be pastured, or the period of the year). 
If the summe which the debter oweth be above the 
stint, he shall not be released. Coryat, Crudities, L 167. 
I know not how, Diuine Prouidence seemeth to haue set 
those Scythian .-//'///- to the Persian proceedings. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 352. 
By rallying round the throne the whole strength of the 
Royalists and High-Churchmen, and by using without 
stint all the resources of corruption, he [Danbyj flattered 
himself that he could manage the Parliament. 
tlacaulay, Sir W. Temple. 
2. Fixed amount or quantity ; allowance; pre- 
scribed or allotted task or performance : as, a 
certain stint of work. 
Put me to a certain stint, sir ; allow me but a red her- 
ring a-day. Fletcher (and another), Love's Core, ii. 1. 
In the divided or social state, these functions are par- 
celled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his 
stint of the joint work. Emerson, Misc., p. 72. 
Margaret had a new stint at quilling. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 2. 
If you are sick or weak, and can't finish your stent, you 
are given twenty blows with the cat. 
The Century, XXXVII. 36. 
3. One of several small species of sandpiper, 
especially of the genus Actodnmias ; asandpeep. 
The common stint is the dunlin, purre, or ox-bird, Pelidna 
alpina. (See dunlin.) This is an early, if not the first, ap- 
plication of the name, as by Ray, who called this bird also 
American Least Stint (Actodromis minuttlla). 
