stint 
oxeye and least snipe,. This little stint is Actodramas minu- 
ta; the least stint is A. minulilla, which abounds in North 
America, and is also known as Wil<iou' miulpijier Tern- 
ininck's stint is A. teminiiuiki; the red-necked, A. rujimllis 
There are several others of the same genus. The broad- 
billed sandpiper, Limicula fiatyrhyneha, is a kind of stint. 
and the spimn-billed, BwyHarkyncfau iHffniH'nx, is an- 
other. Extension of the name to the Banderllng and tu 
phalaropes is unusual. 
stintancet (stin'taus), . [< stint + -ance.] 
Stint; limit; restriction; restraint. London 
Prodigal, p. 7. (Haiti ircll.) [Rare.] 
Stinted (stiu'ted), />. a. 1. Limited; scanty; 
scrimped. 
Oh ! trifle not with wants you cannot feel, 
Nor mock the misery of a stinted meal. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 0. 
2. In foal. SeoxtVwf, . t. ,6. Halliwell. fProv. 
Eng.] 
Stinted, Mn foal.' The word was printed, in this sense, 
in a catalogue of live-stock for sale at Nashville a year or 
two ago [1880]. Halliwell and Wright give it as an adjec- 
tive, meaning in foal, used in the West of England. 
Trans. Amer. PhUol. Ass., XVII. 44. 
stintedness (stin'ted-nes), . The character or 
condition of being stinted, 
stinter(stin'ter), . H stint + -er*.] One who 
or that which stints, checks, or puts a stop to : 
as, a, stin ter of strife. 
Let us now see whether a set form, or this extemporary 
way, be the greater hinderer and stinter of it. 
South, Sermons, II. iii. 
Stintingly (stin'ting-li), adv. Restrictedly ; re- 
strainedly; grudgingly. George Eliot, Janet's 
Repentance, viii. 
stintless (stint'les), a. [< stint + -less.] If. 
Ceaseless. 
His life was nothing els but stintlesse passion. 
Rowland, Betraying of Christ (1598). (HattiweU.) 
2. Without stint; unstinted; generous. 
He gets glimpses of the same stintless hospitality. 
The Century, XXVII. 201. 
stinty (stiu'ti), . [< stint + -#i.] Restricted; 
grudging; illiberal. [Rare.] 
Those endowments which our Anglo-Saxon forefathers 
made to win for themselves and kindred such ghostly aids 
in another world were neither few nor stinty. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 327. 
5951 
ipx 
In 
*~ . o i^ 
a. Longitudinal section of the flower of Gynanttropsis pfHtaphytla 
omg the calyx, two of the petals, two of the stamens, and the slip- 
State ovary. *, Frond of Asplenium Trifhontants. f AparifMs 
campfstris. (s. Stipe in a, b, and c. ) 
2. In anat., a stem : applied to two branches, 
anterior and posterior, of the zygal or paroc- 
cipital fissure of the brain. S. G. Wilder. 3. 
In -ooV., a stipes. 
Stipel (sti'pel), n. [< NL. 'stipella, for *xli/,i- 
tclln, dim. of L. stipes, a post: see stipe?.] In 
bot., a secondary stipule situated at the base of 
the leaflets of a compound leaf. Unlike stipules, 
there is only a single one to each leaflet, with the exception 
of the terminal leaflet, which has a pair. 
stipellate (stl'pel-at), . [< NL. *stipellatns, < 
"stipella, a stipel: see stipel.] In l>ot., bearing 
or having stipels. 
stipend (sti'pend), n. [= Sp. Pg. estipendio = 
It. stipendio, < L. stipendium, a tax, impost, trib- 
ute ; in military use, pay, salary ; contr. for "sti- 
pipendiiim, < stips, a gift, donation, alms (given 
in small coin), + pendere, weigh out: see pen- 
dent.] A fixed periodical allowance or pay- 
ment; settled or fixed pay; salary; pay; spe- 
cifically, in Scotland, the salary paid to a 
clergyman; the income of an ecclesiastical 
living. 
Americus Vesputius, . . . vnder the stipende of the Por- 
tugales, hadde sayled t4iwarde the south pole many degrees 
beyond the Equinoctial!. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 134). 
'Twas a wonder with how small a stipend from his father 
Tom Tusher contrived to make a good figure. 
Thackeray, Henry Esmond, x. 
= SyTL Pay, etc. See salary^. 
a+iriit.a tp (stin'i \n t ^ fl IY NT, " 
' i JPl a .1 S "P -";, fl. \\KLi. 
ttlMt (xtinit-), a StOfk. tTUllk I 8C6 
^- f -' - 
stiony, w. See styany. 
Stipa (sti'pa), n. [NL. (LinnKus, 1753), named 
from the flaxen appearance of the feathery awns 
of S. pennata; < L. stipa, stupa, stuppa, the 
^S^S^^^^^fSffSsitSiStgSfft. 
*&&!!?-& WP??&***L one-flowered pani- ^^ r e ce ive pay, serve for piy, < stipen- 
dium, pay: see stipend, n.] To pay by settled 
stipend or wages; put upon or provide with 
a stipend. Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, xlvii. 
(Latliam.) [Rare.] 
Stipendlarian (sti-pen-di-a'ri-an), a. [< sti- 
pendiary + -an.] Acting from mercenary con- 
siderations; hired; stipendiary. Imp. Diet. 
stipendiary (stl-pen'di-a-ri), . and n. [< F. 
stipendiaire = Sp. Pg. estipendiario = It. stipen- 
diario, < L. stipcndiariiis, pertaining to tribute, 
contribution, or pay, < stipendium, tribute, pay: 
see stipend.] I. a. Receiving wages or salary; 
performing services for a stated price or com- 
pensation; paid. stipendiary curate. Seecwratei. 
Stipendiary estate, in law, a feud or estate granted 
in return for services, generally of a military kind. Sti- 
pendiary magistrate, in Great Britain, a police justice 
sitting in large cities and towns, under appointment by the 
Home Secretary on behalf of the crown. 
II. n.; pi. stipendiaries (-riz). 1. One who 
performs services for a settled payment, salary, 
or stipend. 2. A stipendiary .magistrate. See 
under I. 3. In law, a feudatory owing services 
to his lord. 
stipendiatet (sti-pen'di-at), v. t. [< L. stipen- 
diatiis, pp. of stipendiari, receive pay, serve for 
pay, < stipendium, tribute, salary: see stipend, v.] 
To endow with a stipend or salary. 
Besides y exercise of the horse, armes, dauncing, &c., 
all the sciences are taught in the vulgar French by pro- 
fessors stipendiated by the greate Cardinal. 
Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 14, 1644. 
Stiper Stone group. [< Stiper Stones (see del ).] 
In geitl., a subgroup, the equivalent of the Are- 
nig series in Carnarvonshire : so called from the 
name Stiper Stones given to a prominent ridge 
of quartzose rocks rising above the moorland in 
Shropshire, and extending for about ten miles 
in length. The Arenig or Stiper Stone group, accord- 
ing to Murchison's original classification (1833-4), formed 
the base of the Silurian system. It is now considered to 
be the base of Lapworth's Ordovician, of the Cambro-Silu- 
rian of Jukes, and of the Middle Cambrian of other Eng- 
lish geologists. 
stipes (sti'pez),w. [NL./L. stipes,stips (stipit-), 
n stock, trunk: see stipe-.] 1. In Imt., same as 
- 
cled spikelets, with their pedicels not continued beyond 
the flower, which contains three or perhaps sometimes 
only two lodicules and a narrow acuminate flowering 
glume indurated closely around the grain and prolonged, 
usually by a joint, into a long and commonly conspicuous- 
ly twisted or bent awn. There are nearly 100 species, wide- 
ly dispersed through both tropical and temperate regions. 
They are tufted grasses, usually tall, with convolute leaves 
and a slender, sparingly branched panicle of rather long 
scattered spikelets, with awns sometimes extremely atten- 
uated. A general name of the species is feather-grots, 
applying particularly to the highly ornamental S. pen- 
nata of Europe. The only common species of the eastern 
United States is 5. avenacea, the black oat-grass ; westward 
the species are numerous several, known as bunch-, 
beard-, or feather-grass, being somewhat valuable wild 
forage-plants of the mountains and great plains. Among 
these are S. comata (sttk-yrass) and 5. spartea (porcupine- 
grass), the latter remarkable for its hygrometric awns, 
which are coiled when dry, but uncoil under moisture and, 
when resisted, tend to push the seed into the ground. S. 
mridula, var. robunta, of Mexico, JJew Mexico, etc., is re- 
ported to have a narcotic effect upon horses, and is called 
sleepy-grans. S. aristiylumis of Australia is a valuable fod- 
der-plant, of remarkably rapid growth ; S. mierantha of 
Queensland borrows the name of bamboo. S. tenadssima 
and & arenaria, on account of their large membranous 
spikelets and two-cleft flowering glume, are sometimes 
separated as a genus, Macrochloa (Kunth, 1H35). See es- 
parto, alfa, and atocha-gra&s. 
stipate (sti'pat), a. [< L. stipatus, pp. of sti- 
pare, crowd, press together. Cf. constipuit-.] 
In bot., crowded. 
stipe 1 (stip), n. [A dial. var. of steep 1 . Cf. Stiper 
Stone group.'] A steep ascent. Halliirell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
stipe 2 (stip), n. [< F. stipe, a stipe, = Sp. esti- 
pite, a door-post, = It. stipite, a stock, trunk, 
post, door-post, < L. stipes (stipit-), a stock, 
trunk, post, poet, a tree, a branch of a tree; 
perhaps cognate with E. stiff.] 1. In bot., a 
stalk or support of some sort, the word being 
variously employed, (a) In flowering plants, the 
stalk formed by the receptacle or some part of it, or by a 
carpel. To distinguish further this kind of stipe, various 
other terms are employed, as thecaphore, gynophore, gono- 
phore, anthophore, yynobase, and carpophore. See cut un- 
der Arachis. (b) The stalk or petiole of a frond, espe- 
cially of a fern or seaweed. See cut under seaweed, (c) 
In fungi, especially of the genus Agaricus, the stalk or 
stem which supports the pileus or cap. (d) The caudex 
of a tree-fern. Also stipes. See cut in next column. 
stipular 
I'*. 2. In zniil., a stalk m- Mi-m, as an eye- 
stnlk 4ir a fiMilstalk: a stipr. spe, ilieally -(a) In 
'lit* ,/!., tin tin it stalk iif the. maxilla uf an insect, the outer 
or main division of that myaii; the second joint of the 
maxilla, linnic up. in the ranln, ami thl,ill'_'h tile palpifur 
anil Miliu.ilra In ariim tin- palpus, ^'alea, ami laeinia, when 
these nif-iiLs i-xist. Als4> calleil shaft. See ents under 
!fr/l>'it ami Iiixecta. (b) In Miu /'ij,,,,/<i : (1) 'Ihe proximal 
or median one of two pieces of wliic:h the protomala, or 
so-called mandible, consists, the other heiiiK the cnrdu. 
See pn>tn>l(i, ami ti^'iire nmlei >'/,iful>i-u i/f. (>) line of 
two sets, an inner ami an imtir, ut limad plates intowhich 
the dentomala, or second pair ol imnith-appendajres, of a 
m.uiapiiil is divided, s.i ,1. ui,,,,, ,il,i. A. S. I'ackara, 
Proc. Amer. i'hilns. Soc., June, 1883, pp. 198, uoo. 
Stipiform (sti'pi-form), (i. [< L. stipes, s 
(xli/iit-), a stock, trunk, 4- forum, form.] 
linl. aiul ;<>ol., having the form or appearance 
of a stipe or stipes. See stipe 2 , i 
L. 
In 
bot. ami -DO/., having or supported by a stipe 
or stipes; elevated on a stipe. 
stipitiform (stip'i-ti-f6rm), a. [< L. stipes 
(nii)iit-), a stock, trunk (see stipe%), + forum. 
form.] In 601". and goal., having the form or 
character of a stipe or stipes; stipiform; stalk- 
like. 
stipiture (stip'i-tur), w. A bird of the genus 
.^/i/ii/iin/n; an emu-wren. 
Stipiturus (stip-i-tu'rus), i. [NL. (Lesson, 
1831), < L. stipes (stipit-), a stock, trunk, + Gr. 
oiipa, tail.] An Australian genus of warbler-like 
birds, assigned to the Malurinie or placed else- 
where, having the tail curiously formed of ten 
feathers with stiffened shafts and 
loose decomposed barbs (whence 
the name); the emu-wrens. 
5. mala- 
curiis is a 
small brownish 
bird streaked 
with black, and 
with a blue 
throat, described 
by Latham in 
1801 as the soft- 
tailed flycatcher. 
The immediate 
affinities of the 
genus are with 
such forms as 
Sphenaeacus and 
Sphenura (see 
these words), and 
the true position of all these forms seems to be among or 
near the reed- or grass-warblers, especially such as have 
but ten tail-feathers. See icarbler. 
stipple (stip'l), . t. ; pret. and pp. stippled, ppr. 
stippling. [< D. stippeleii, speckle, dot over (cf. 
stippel, a speckle, dim. of stip, a point), freq. of 
stippen (> G. stippen), prick, dot, speckle, < stip, 
MD. stip, stup, a point, dot.] To produce gra- 
dation in color or shade in (any material) by 
means of dots or small spots. See stippling. 
The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid 
a broken, stippled, spotty effect. 
Mi/mini, Latin Christianity, xiv. 10. 
Stipple (stip'l), n. [< stipple, v.] 1. In the/wr 
arts, same as stippling. 2. In decorative art, an 
intermediate tone or color, or combination of 
tones, used to make gradual the passage from 
one color to another in a design Stipple-en- 
graving process, the process of making an engraved 
plate by stippling. The first step is to lay an etching- 
ground on a copperplate; the next, after the subject has 
been transferred as in etching, is to dot in the outline: 
after which the darker parts are marked with dots, which 
are laiil in larger and more closely in the deeper shades. 
The plate is then bitten in, the ground is removed, and 
the lighter parts are laid in with dry-point or the stipple- 
graver. 
stippled (stip'ld), p. a. Spotted; shaded or 
modeled by means of minute dots applied with 
the point of the brush or in a similar way. 
Stipple-graver (stip'1-gra/ver), . An engrav- 
ers^ tool of which the point is bent downward 
so as to facilitate the making of small dots or 
indentations in the surface of a copperplate. 
stippler (stip'ler), . [< stipple + -cr 1 .] 1. 
One who stipples. 2. A brush or tool used for 
stippling: as, a stippler made of hog's hair. 
stippling (stip'ling), H. [Verbal n. of stipple, 
v.] In the fine arts, dotted work of any kind, 
whether executed with the brush-point, the 
pencil, or the stipple-graver. 
Stiptict, . and w. See styptic. 
stipula (stip'u-ltt), n.; pi. sti/nilse (-le). [NL., 
< L. stipula, a stalk: see stipule.] In ornitli., 
same as stipule. 
stipulaceous (stip-u-la'shius), a. [< stipula + 
-aceous.] In tot., same as stipular. 
stipular (stip'u-lar), a. [< NL. utipiila + -ar'3.] 
In hot., of, belonging to. or standing in the 
Kmu-wren (Stipittirtts malacurus). 
