stang1 (stang)

t. [ in the University of Cambridge, to stang Scholars in Christ This Word Stang, says Ray, is still used in some Colleges ma Time being to cause them to ride on a Colt-staff or Pole, for mi ing of Chapel. Bourne's Pop. Antiq . (1777), p. 410. stang2 (stang), n. [ stange , a sting; sting (pret. stang ), sting: see sting1 .] 1. A sting. or [Obsolete or Scotch.] Quen the stanged muzt se The nedder on the tree ther hange, Thai ware al warisht of their stange . Holy Rood (ed. Morris), p. 117. My curse upon thy venom'd stang , That shoots my tortured gums alang. Burns, Addre to the Toothache. 2. The weever, a fish. Also stangster. [Prov.] stang2 (stang), v. [ The nedderes that ware fel Stanged the folk of israel. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. II. in trans. 1. To throb with pain; sting. Hall i well.-2. To cause a sharp, sudden pain; inflict a sting. But for how lang the flee may stang , Let inclination law that. Burns, Jolly Beggars. [Obsolete or dialectal in all uses.] day stimulates thought, each treating his theme from his own standpoint. A. B. Alcott, Table-Talk, p. 91. The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. W. James , Prin. of Psychol., I. 196.