Stinkstone
(Stink"stone`) n. (Min.) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a
fetid odor on being struck; — called also swinestone.
Stinkweed
(Stink"weed`) n. (Bot.) Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
Stinkwood
(Stink"wood`) n. (Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as
that of the Fœtidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Stint
(Stint) n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe
and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India etc. Called also pume. (b) A phalarope.
Stint
(Stint), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten,
to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to
shorten, stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent, Stunt.]
1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production
of weeds.
Woodward.
She stints them in their meals.
Law. 2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to upon the performance of which one is excused from further
labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; — said of mares.
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
J. H. Walsh. Stint
(Stint), v. i. To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
They can not stint till no thing be left.
Chaucer.
And stint thou too, I pray thee.
Shak.
The damsel stinted in her song.
Sir W. Scott. Stint
(Stint), n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
South. 2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
Cowper. Stintance
(Stint"ance) n. Restraint; stoppage. [Obs.]
Stintedness
(Stint"ed*ness), n. The state of being stinted.
Stinter
(Stint"er) n. One who, or that which, stints.
