stimulose

[Lat. stimulosus.] Bot.: Covered with stings or stimuli. stim-u-lŭs ( pl. stim'-u-li), s. [Lat.=a prick, a goad.] [STIMULATE.] I. Ord. Lang .: A goad; hence, that which stim ulates, excites, or animates to action or greater spirits or mind; an incitement, a spur. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0316.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Figuratively : Shakesp.: Complaint , 134. (1) That which goads, excites, or incites; a goad, a spur, a stimulus. "They never worked till they felt the sting of hunger." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. (2) Anything which gives acute pain. "Slander, whose sting is sharper than the sword's." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , ii. 3. *(3) That which constitutes the principal terror and pain. (1) Corinthians xv. 56.) (4) The biting, sarcastic, or cutting effect of words; the point, as of an epigram. "It is not the jerk or sting of an epigram, nor the seeming contradiction of a poor antithesis." -Dryden . ( Todd .) *(5) An impulse, a goad, a stimulus, a spur. "The wanton stings and motion of the sense." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , i. 4. II. Technically : 1. Bot .: A stinging-hair (q. v.). 2. Entom .: A weapon of defense, concealed within the abdomen in bees, wasps, . [ACULEATA], and capable of exsertion, or forming part of the last joint of the tail in scorpions. [SCORPION.] The sting of the bee appears to the naked eye a simple needle-shaped organ; but the microscope shows that it is formed of three pieces: A short, stout, cylindrico-conical sheath containing two setæ, or lancets, one edge thickened and furnished with teeth directed backward, the other sharp and cutting. The poison apparatus consists of two glandular elongated sacs, and terminates by one or two excretory ducts. Morphologically viewed, a sting is an altered oviduct. The term sting is sometimes inaccurately used of the bite of a venomous serpent, and of the forked tongue of snakes. "Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting ." Dryden: Virgil's Ecl . iii. 145. sting and ling, phr . 1. By force of arms, vi et arm is. (Scotch.) "Unle he had been brought there sting and ling."Scott: Antiquary , ch. xliv. IMG:content-0317.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0318.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0319.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: Murex erinaceus. [MUREX, 1.] stin-ga-reē', 8. [STING-RAY.]