stingaree (stinggare)

sting-ray.] See sting - ray. Scott, Antiquary, xliv. [A corrupt form of She was trying to task herself up to her duty. At last she stung herself into its performance by a suspicion. Mrs. Gaskell, North and South, xxxviii. II. in trans. 1. To have a sting; be capable of wounding with a sting; use the sting: literally or figuratively: as, hornets sting ; epigrams often sting ; a stinging blow. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Prov. xxiii. 32. 2. To give pain or smart; be sharply painful; smart: as, the wound stung for an hour. Under the dust, beneath the gra , Deep in dim death, where no thought stings . A. C. Swinburne, Félise.