Stint definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary STINT, v.t. [Gr., narrow.] 1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals. Nature wisely stints our appetite ... time; a common popular use of the word in America. STINT, n. A small bird, the Tringa cinctus. STINT, n. ...
Stent definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary STENT, for stint. [See Stint.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a slender tube ... v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. --Chaucer ... v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. -- ...
Stunt definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary STUNT, v.t. [See Stint.] To hinder from growth; applied to animals and plants; as ... Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse stuttr scant — more at stint Date: 1583 to hinder the normal growth, development, or progress ... college athletics Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stunt Stunt, n. [Cf. Stint a task.] A feat hard to perform; an act which ... imp. & p. p. Stunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunting.] [See Stint.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a ... ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. Dwarf, stint, stop the growth of, hinder from growth. Moby Thesaurus ...
... sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant] Merriam Webster's I. adjective Etymology: Middle English ... to provide with a meager or inadequate portion or supply ; stint Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & v. --adj. barely sufficient; deficient (with ... archaic provide (a supply, material, a person, etc.) grudgingly; skimp; stint. Derivatives: scantly adv. scantness n. Etymology: ME f. ON skamt ... Scanting.] 1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in ... Dictionary of English Synonyms I. v. a. 1. Limit, straiten, stint. 2. Grudge, keep back, be niggard of, cut short. II ... small, spare, sparing, sparse, specialize, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, starve, stingy, stint, stinted, strait, straiten, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, ...
... call, or bring to task Synonyms: task, duty, job, chore, stint, assignment mean a piece of work to be done. task ... maintaining a household or farm < every child was assigned chores >. stint implies a carefully allotted or measured quantity of assigned work or service < a 2-month stint as a reporter >. assignment implies a definite limited task assigned ... Take. Syn: Work; labor; employment; business; toil; drudgery; study; lesson; stint. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (tasks, tasking tasked) Frequency: The word ... work, sermon, service, set, set task, skull session, slavery, spadework, stint, strain, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, subject to, sweat, take ...
... subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: scrimp, stint, skimp] 4: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant] Merriam Webster's I. adjective Etymology: perhaps alteration ... etc. 2 tr. use a meagre or insufficient amount of, stint (material, expenses, etc.). 3 intr. be parsimonious. --adj. scanty. --n ... over, slight, slubber over, slur, slur over, spare, sparse, starve, stint, touch upon, touch upon lightly
pume definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stint Stint, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species ... the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. (b) A ... s 1913 Dictionary Pume Pume, n. (Zo["o]l.) A stint.
... syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stint Stint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n ... extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. --Woodward. She stints ...
... a certain limit or quantity; limited. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stint Stint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n ... extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. --Woodward. She stints ...
Tringa minuta definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stint Stint, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species ... the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. (b) A ...
... 5 a tr. (usu. foll. by in, of, for, etc.) stint (a person). b intr. be niggardly with money, food, etc ... try thoroughly. II. v. n. 1. Bear hard. 2. Spare, stint, be niggardly, be parsimonious, be frugal, economize. III. n. 1 ... squeezing, stab, stabbing pain, starve, steal, stew, sticky wicket, sting, stint, stitch, stopgap, storm clouds, strait, straits, stress, substitute, swamp, swindle ...
Stintless definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stintless Stint"less, a. Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. --Marston. Moby Thesaurus ...
... he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary" [syn: stretch, stint] 7: the capacity for being stretched [syn: stretch, stretchiness, stretchability ... springy, squash court, stage, stand, stand on tiptoes, stand up, stint, straddle, straggle, strain, strain every nerve, straining, stress, stress and ...
... free spending > b. outspoken c. availing oneself of something without stint d. frank, open e. overly familiar or forward in action ... abandon, withdraw the charge, without, without charge, without restraint, without stint
... who stints someone with something Merriam Webster's noun see stint I Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stinter Stint"er, n. One who, or that which, stints.