stint (1), stynt

[STINT (1), v.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Limit, bound, restriction. "Without being ever able to come to any stop or stint ." -Locke: Human Understand . , bk. ii., ch. xiii. 2. Ornith .: A popular name for several species of the genus Tringa (q. v.). The Stint, or Common Stint ( T. alpina ), is known also as the Dunlin (q. v.), Purre, Churr, Ox-bird, and Sea-snipe. The Little Stint (T. minuta ), the American Stint ( T. minutilla ), and Temminck's Stint ( T. temminckii ) are occasional visitors to northern Europe. "In the Household Books of the L'Estrange family, and of the Duke of North umber land, Styntes seem to have varied from a dozen to six for a penny, but several of the smaller species were comprised under this name."- Yar rell: Brit . Birds (ed. 4th), iii. 378. Common without stint: Law : An unmeasured right of common lasting all the year, and permitting a commoner to put an unlimited number of cattle upon the common. It is po ible in law, but very rarely exists, being ultimately cut short by admeasurement (q. v.). stint (2), 8. [STINT (2), v.] A quantity a igned: proportion; allotted task or performance. "Whilst in Birmingham and other workhouses able bodied men were required to pick 8 lb. of beaten or 4 lb. of unbeaten oakum, the stint in the Wallsal workhouse was only 4 lb. of beaten." -Echo , Jan. 27, 1886. *stint'-ançe, s. [Eng. stint ; -ance.] Restraint, stoppage, stint. "I shall weep without any stintance."-London Prodigal, i. 1. (1605.) stint-ěd, pr. par., or a. [STINT (1), v.]. stint'-ěd-ne , subst. [Eng. stinted; -ne .] The quality or state of being stinted.