stipa

[Gr. stype =tow.] Marston. ( Webster .) Bot.: The genus Torreya. [STINKING-CEDAR.] stinking or disgusting manner; disgustingly. "Canst thou believe thy living is a life, So stinkingly depending?" Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , iii. 2. stink'-pot, s . [Eng. stink , and pot .] 1. A ve el used by the Chinese and Malay pirates to throw on board a ship to suffocate the crew. *2. A ve el, pot, or jar full of stinking materials. *3. A disinfectant. "The air may be purified by fires of pitch barrels, especially in close places, by burning of stinkpots ."-Harvey. stink-trăp, s . [Eng. stink , and trap .] A contrivance to prevent the escape of effluvia from the openings of drains; a stench-trap. stint (1), *stinte, *stynt, v. t. & i. [A.S.styntan "Exhale out filthy smoak and stinking steams." Bishop Hall: Satires, i. 3. 2. Fig .: To be offensive; to be in bad odor or reputation. "Ful soth it is that swiche profered service Stinketh ." Chaucer: C. Т. , 16,464. B. Trans.: To annoy with an offensive smell. obtuse; Icel. stytta to shorten, from stuttr =short, stunted; Sw. dial. stynta =to shorten, from stunt= small, short; Norw. stytta , stutta to shorten, from stutt =short.] A. Transitive : *1. To stop; to cause to stop; to put an end to. "The Reve answered and saide, Stint thy clappe." Chaucer: C. T., 3,144. is the Common Feather-gra . Ithas rigid, setaceous, grooved leaves, and exceedingly long awns, feathery at the point. It is very ornamental in gardens in summer, and if gathered before the seeds are ripe it retains its long feathery awns, and is sometimes dyed of various colors and used for dec orative purposes. IMG:content-0321.png:[blocks in formation] services rendered; an annual salary or allowance, especially the income of an ecclesiastical benefice, and in the Roman Church the sum which a priest may demand for saying ma for a special intention. In Scotland, a term applied specifically to the provision made for the support of the parochial minister of the Established Church. It consists of payments made in money or grain, or both, varying in amount according to the extent of the parish, and the state of the free teinds, or of any other fund specially set apart for the purpose. "It is evident, therefore, that an official man would have been well paid if he had received a fourth or fifth part of what would now be an adequate stipend." --Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. iii. *sti-pěnd, v . t . [STIPEND, 8.] To pay by a settled stipend, salary, or allowance. "I, sir, am a physician; and am stipended in this island to be so to the govern ours of it."- Shelton : Don Quixote, ch. xlvii. *sti-pěn-där-I-an, a . [Eng. stipend; -arian.] Mercenary, hired; acting from mercenary motives; stipendiary.