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By what criterion do ye eat, d’ye think ? 
If this is priz’d for sweetness, that for stink. Pope. 
STI'NKARD, s. A mean stinking paltry fellow.—You 
perpetual stinkard , go; talk to tapsters and ostlers, you 
slave. B. Jonson. 
STI'NKER, s. Something intended to offend by the 
smell.—The air may be purified by burning of stinkpots or 
stinkers in contagious lanes. Harvey. 
STINKING ISLANDS, a cluster of islands near the east 
coast of Newfoundland. Lat. 40. 28. N. long. 52. 50. W. 
STENKINGLY, adv. With a stink. 
Can’st thou believe thy living is a life, 
So stinkingly depending- ? Shakspcare. 
STINKPOT, s. An artificial composition offensive to 
the smell.—The air may be purified by fires of pitch-barrels, 
especially in close places, and by burning of stinkpots. 
Harvey. 
STINSFORD, a’ parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 1 
mile from Dorchester. 
STI PHILI, a petty town of European Turkey, in the 
north of the Morea, province of Sicyonia. It was ruined 
by the Albanians after the unsuccessful invasion of the 
Russians, and insurrection of the Greeks, in 1770. Its an¬ 
cient name was Phitius. 
To STINT, v. a. [jxincan, Sax.; stynta, Swed.; stunta, 
Icel.] To bound; to limit; to confine; to restrain ; to stop. 
Then hopeless, heartless, gan the cunning thief, 
Persuade us die, to stint all further strife. Spenser. 
She stints them in their meals, and is very scrupulous of 
what they eat and drink, and tells them how many fine 
shapes she has seen spoiled in her time for want of such care. 
Law. 
To STINT, v.n. To cease ; to stop; to desist: a north¬ 
ern expression. 
The pretty wench, left crying, and said, Ay ;— 
And, pretty fool, it stinted, and said. Ay. Shakspcare. 
STINT, s. Limit; bound ; restraint.—The exteriors of 
mourning, a decent funeral, and black habits, are the usual 
stints of common husbands. Dryden. —A proportion; a 
quantity assigned. 
Our stint of woe 
Is common ; every day, a sailor’s wife. 
The masters of some merchant, and the merchant 
Have just our theme of woe. Shakespeare. 
How much wine drink you in a day ? my stint in com¬ 
pany is a pint at noon. Swift. 
STINT, s. A small bird common about the sea-shores in 
many parts of England. Chambers. See Tringa: 
STI'NTANCE, s. Restraint; stoppage.—Nay, I cannot 
weep you extempore: marry, some two or three days hence 
I shall weep without any stintance. The London Prodigal. 
STl'NTER, s. Whatever or whoever stints, restrains, or 
cramps.—Let us see whether a set form or extemporary way 
of praying by the spirit be the greater hinderer and stinter 
of it. South. 
STIPA, in Botany, a genus of the class triandria, order 
digynia, natural order of gramina, graminese or grasses.— 
Generic Character. Calyx: glume one-flowered, two- 
valved, lax, acuminate. Corolla two-valved: outer valve 
terminated at the tip by a very long twisted awn, jointed at 
the base and straight: inner valve length of the outer, awn¬ 
less, linear. Nectary two-leaved: leaflets linear-lanceolate, 
membranaceous, gibbous at the base. Stamina: filaments 
three, capillary. Anthers linear. Pistil: germ oblong. 
Styles two, hirsute, united at the base. Stigmas pubescent. 
Pericarp none. Glume adnate. Seed one, oblong, covered. 
— Essential Character. Calyx two-valved, one-flowered. 
Corolla, outer valve with a terminating awn, jointed at the 
base. 
1. Stipapennata, or soft feather-grass.—Awnswoolly. Root 
perennial, fibrous, tufted. Culms simple, a foot high, upright 
slender, round, very smooth, without knots, clothed entirely 
with the sheaths of the leaves. The feathered awns are a 
beautiful and remarkable feature, at once distinguishing this 
from all our other grasses.—It has been found in several places 
in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Barbary and Siberia. 
Johnson, the editor of Gerarde’s herbal, says it was nou¬ 
rished for the beauty in sundry of our English gardens ; and 
that it was worn by sundry ladies and gentlewomen instead 
of a feather, which it exquisitely resembles. 
2. Stipa juncea, or rush-leaved feather-grass. — Awns 
naked, straight; calyxes longer than the seed ; leaves smooth 
within. Root perennial (or biennial).—.Native of France, 
Switzerland, Silesia, Carniolia and Barbary. 
3. Stipa capillata, or capillary feather-grass.—Awns naked, 
curved; calyxes longer than the seed; leaves pubescent 
within. This resembles the preceding species very much. 
—Native of France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Pe¬ 
rennial. \ 
4. Stipa aristella, or short-awned feather-grass.—Awns 
naked, straight, scarcely twice as long as the calyx; germs 
woolly. Root perennial. Culms two feet high. Panicle 
subspiked, with two or three-flowered peduncles. Calyx 
length of the seed. Seed round, pubescent, with few villose 
hairs.—Native of the country about Montpelier. 
5. Stipa paleacea, or chaffy feather-grass.—Awns half 
naked; panicle simple; leaves convoluted, awl-shaped, 
pubescent within. This has the appearance of the juncea. 
—Found about Tunis and in Egypt. 
6 . Stipa tenacissima, or tough feather-grass. —Awns 
hairy at the base; panicle spiked; leaves filiform. Habit 
of avena.—Native of Spain and Barbary, on sandy hills. 
7. Stipa Capensis, or Cape feather-grass—Awns hairy 
at the base ; panicle spiked; leaves ensiform.—Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
8 . Stipa spicata, or spiked feather-grass.—Awns hairy at 
the base; raceme spiked, directed to one side. Root peren¬ 
nial, creeping, producing many culms.—Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
9. Stipa bicolor, or two-coloured feather-grass.—Awns 
naked; seeds obovate, bearded at the base.—Native of Bra¬ 
sil, on Monte Video. Found by Thouin. 
10. Stipa avenacea, or oat feather-grass.—Awns naked; 
calyxes equalling the seed. Culms slender. — Native of 
Virginia. 
11. Stipa membranacea, or membranaceous feather-grass. 
—Pedicels dilated, membranaceous. The last flower but 
one sessile.—Native of Spain, where it was observed by 
Loefiing. 
12. Stipa barbata, or bearded feather-grass.— Leaves 
rigid, striated on one side; panicle lax, elongated; awns 
very long, bearded from the base to the tip.—Native of Bar¬ 
bary, about Mascar and Tlemsen. 
13. Stipa parviflora, or small-flowered feather-grass.— 
Leaves radical, stiffish, filiform ; panicle diffused; awns 
naked, capillaceaus. Roots perennial, fibrous, flexuose, 
long. Culms many, from the same head, slender, erect.— 
Native of dry hills, near Mascar, and in the kingdom of 
Tunis. 
14. Stipa tortilis, or twisted-awned feather-grass.—Panicle 
spiked, rolled in at the base; inner calyx villose; awns 
twisted, villose at bottom. It is an annual grass.—Native of 
Barbary, in fields. 
STIPEND, s. [stipendium, Lat.] Wages; settled pay. 
All the earth. 
Her kings and tetrarchs are their tributaries; 
People and nations pay them hourly stipends. B. Jonson. 
To STIPEND, v. a. To pay by settled wages.—I, sir, 
am a physician; and am stipended in this island to be so to 
the governours of it. Contin. of D. Suixote. 
STIPENDIARY, adj. [stipendiarius, Lat.] Receiving 
salaries; performing any service for a stated price.—His 
great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil appointed 
horsemen not half full. Kno/les. 
STIPENDIARY, 
