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Definition & Synonyms
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• Sting
- (v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
- (v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
- (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
- (v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
- (v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- (v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
- (v. t.) A goad; incitement.
- (v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- (v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
Synonyms:
Bite, Bunko, Burn, Con, Flimflam, Gyp, Hustle, Pang, Prick, Stick, Stinging, Twinge,
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• Stingily
- (adv.) In a stingy manner.
Synonyms:
Cheaply,
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• Stingless
- (a.) Having no sting.
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• Stingfish
- (n.) The weever.
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• Stingbull
- (n.) The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
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