stingy2 (stinji)

[A dialectal (a ibilated) form and deflected use of stingy1.] 1. Ill-tempered. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]-2. Meanly avaricious; extremely close-fisted and covetous; niggardly: as, a stingy fellow. stingy The griping and stingy humour of the covetous. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. vii. 3. Scanty; not full or plentiful. When your teams Drag home the stingy harvest. Long fellow, Wayside Inn, Birds of Killing worth. =Syn. 2. Parsimonious , Miserly , etc. (see penurious ), il liberal, ungenerous, saving, chary. stink (stingk), v.; pret. and pp. stunk (pret. formerly stank ), ppr. stinking. [ disfavor. IMG:content-2142.png:[blocks in formation] And therwithal he stank so horribel. Fall Fate upon us, Our memories shall never stink behind us. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 7. Stinking badger, the stinkard or teledu. - Stinking bunt. Same as stinking smut. - Stinking camomile. Same as mayweed.- Stinking cedar, a coniferous tree of the genus Torreya: so named from the strong peculiar odor of the wood and foliage, especially when bruised tremely locale western Florida, avgrene or burnt. Most properly so called is T. tax i folia, an exmoderate size, with bright-yellow (or in old trees red. dish) wood susceptible of a fine polish, very durable in contact with the soil, and, where found, largely used for fence-posts. Also called savin. See cut under Torreya. The similar T. Californica is the California nutmeg (see nutmeg). T. grand is of China, called kay a, affords a good timber. T. nucifera, a smaller Japanese species, yields a wood valued by coopers and turners, and a food-oil is expre ed from its nuts. Also stinking yew. - Stinking crane's-bill. Same as herb -robert. - Stinking goosefoot. Same as notch weed. - Stinking hellebore, hoarhound. See the nouns. - Stinking mayweed, the common mayweed. - Stinking nightshade. Same as hen. bane.-Stinking nutmeg, the California nutmeg, one of the stinking cedars. See nutmeg - Stinking smut. See smut, 3.- Stinking vervain, the guinea-hen weed. See Petiveria. - Stinking yew. Same as stinking cedar. II. trans. To annoy with an offensive smell; affect in any way by an offensive odor. Imp. Dict .