Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STIN'GI-NESS, n. [from stingy.]

Extreme avarice; mean covetousness; niggardliness.

STING'ING-LY, adv.

With stinging.

STING'LESS, a. [from sting.]

Having no sting.

STIN'GO, n. [from the sharpness of the taste.]

Old beer. [A cant word.] – Addison.

STIN'GY, a. [from straitness; W. ystang, something strait; ystangu, to straiten, to limit.]

Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; gardly; narrow hearted; as, a stingy churl. [A word in popular use, but low and not admissible into elegant writing.]

STINK, n.

A strong offensive smell. – Dryden.

STINK, v.i. [pret. stank or stunk. Sax. stincan; G. and D. stinken; Dan. stinker; Sw. stinka.]

To emit a strong offensive smell. – Locke.

STINK'ARD, n.

A mean paltry fellow.

STINK'ER, n.

Something intended to offend by the smell. – Harvey.

STINK'ING, ppr.

Emitting a strong offensive smell.

STINK'ING-LY, adv.

With an offensive smell. – Shak.

STINK'POT, n.

An artificial composition offensive to the smell. – Harvey.

STINK'STONE, n.

Swinestone, a variety of compact lucullite; a subspecies of limestone. – Ure.

STINT, n.¹

A small grallatory bird, the Tringa cinclus.

STINT, n.²

1. Limit; bound; restraint. – Dryden.
2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint. Our stint of woe / Is common. – Shak.

STINT, v.i. [Sax. stintan, to stint, or stunt; Ice. stunta; Gr. στενος, narrow.]

1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals. Nature wisely stints our appetite. – Dryden.
2. To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

STINT'ANCE, n.

Restraint; stoppage. [Not used or local.]

STINT'ED, pp.

Restrained to a certain limit or quantity; limited.

STINT'ED-NESS, n.

State of being stinted.

STINT'ER, n.

He or that which stints.

STINT'ING, ppr.

Restraining within certain limits; assigning a certain quantity to; limiting.

STIPE, n. [L. stipes; Gr. στυπος, a stake.]

In botany, the base of a frond; or a species of stem passing into leaves, or not distinct from the leaf. The stem of a fungus is also called stipe. The word is also used for the filament or slender stalk which supports the pappus, and connects it with the seed. – Martyn.

STI'PEND, n. [L. stipendium; stips, a piece of money, and pendo, to pay.]

Settled pay or compensation for services, whether daily or monthly wages; or an annual salary.

STI'PEND, v.t.

To pay by settled wages. – Shelton.

STI-PEND'I-A-RY, a. [L. stipendiarius.]

Receiving wages or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelate came with troops of evil appointed horsemen not half full. – Knolles.