Stink"stone` (?), n. (Min.) One of the varieties of calcite, barite,
and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also
swinestone.
Stink"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
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Stink"wood` (?), n. (Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with
an unpleasant smell, as that of the Fœtidia Mauritiana of the
Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Stint (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small
sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the
little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. (b) A
phalarope.
Stint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.] [OE.
stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to
blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten,
stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent,
Stunt.] 1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to
restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon
the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
Woodward.
She stints them in their meals.
Law.