stinginess (stinjines)

The state or quality of being stingy; extreme avarice; niggardline ; miserline . stinging (sting'ing), p. a. 1. That uses a sting; furnished with a sting or stinging organs of any sort; urticating: as, a stinging insect or sea nettle.-2. In bot., noting a plant furnished with stinging hairs. See sting1, 2.-3. That pierces or wounds as with a sting; that causes acute pain, irritation, or the like; keen; sharp; pungent; telling: as, a stinging tongue; a sting ing rebuke or remark. He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat, Against the stinging blast. Long fellow , Wreck of the Hesperus. as clam - cracker, and corruptly called stingaree. Southern Sting-ray ( Trygon sabin a). (From Report of U. S. Fish Commi ion.) T. sabin a is a similar southern species. The name extends to any ray with a tail-spine. See Myliobatidæ ( a ). sting tail (sting'tāl), n. A sting-ray. The hedge