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t. [A var. of stanch1.] To stanch. First, the blood must bee stinched, and howe was that Breton, Miseries of Mauillia, p. 39. ( Davies.) stine (stin), n. A dialectal form of sty an. sting1 (sting), v.; pret. and pp. stung (pret. formerly stang ), ppr. stinging. [ Thei ben y-sewed with whizt silk, Y-stongen with stiches. ... Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 553. 2t. To impale. He stingeth him upon his speres orde. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 645. 3. To prick severely; give acute pain to by piercing with a sharp point; especially, to pierce and wound with any sharp-pointed weapon supplied with acrid or poisonous fluid, as a fang or sting, with which certain animals and plants are furnished; bite; urticate: as, to be stung by a bee, a scorpion, or a nettle, or by a serpent or a sea-nettle. I often have been stung too with curst bees. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 2. 4. To pain acutely, as if with a sting; goad: as, a conscience stung with remorse. Unhappy Psyche, stung by these reproaches, Profoundly feels the wound dive in her heart. 5. To stimulate; 'goad. 5949 cuts under chelicera and falx. (e) The curved or claw-like telson of the tail of a scorpion, inflicting a serious poisoned wound. See cuts under scorpion and Scorpionida. (f) One of the feet or claws of centipeds, which, in the case of some of the larger kinds, of tropical countries, inflict painful and dangerous wounds. (9) The poison-fang or venom-tooth of a nocuous serpent; also, in popular misapprehension, the harmle soft forked tongue of any serpent. See cuts under Crotal us and snake. (h) A fin-spine of some fishes, capable of wounding. In a few cases such spines are connected with a venom-gland whence poison is injected; in others, as the tail-spines of sting-rays, the large bony sting, several inches long and sometimes jagged, is smeared with a substance which may cause a wound to fester. See cuts under stone -cat, sting-ray. (1) An urticating organ, or such organs collectively, of the jellyfishes, sea-nettles, or other cœlenterates. See cut under nematocyst. 2. In bot., a sort of sharp-pointed hollow hair, seated upon or connected with a gland which secretes an acrid or poisonous fluid, which, when introduced under the skin, produces a stinging pain. For plants armed with such stings, see cowhage, nettlel (with cut), nettle-tree, 2, and tread - softly. -3. The fine taper of a dog's tail. Sportsman's Gazetteer.-4. The operation or effect of a sting; the act of stinging; the usually poisoned punctured wound made by a sting; also, the pain or smart of such a wound. Their softest touch as smart as lizards' stings! Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 325. 5. Anything, or that in anything, which gives acute pain, or constitutes the es the principal pain; also, anything which goads to action: as, the sting of hunger; the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach. The sting of death is sin. 1 Cor. xv. 56. Slander, Whose sting is sharper than the sword's. Shak . , W. T., ii. 3. 86. A bitter jest leaves a sting behind it. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 77. 6. Mental pain inflicted, as by a biting or cutting remark or sarcasm; hence, the point of an epigram. There is nothing harder to forgive than the sting of an epigram. O. W. Holmes, The Atlantic, LXVI. 667. 7. A stimulus, irritation, or incitement; a nettling or goading; an impulse. The wanton stings and motions of the sense. Exserted sting. See exserted. Shak ., M. for M., i. 4. 59. sting2 (sting), n. [Also steing ; a var. of stang1 .] 1t. A pole.-21. A pike; a spear.-3. An instrument for thatching.-4. The mast of a ve el. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch in all uses.] sting-and-ling (sting'and-ling'), adv . [Lit. pole and line; sting2 " + and + ling , Sc. var. of line2.] Entirely; completely; with everything; hence, by force. [Scotch.] Unle he had been brought there sting and ling.