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a.
Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
v. t.
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
n.
Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.
n.
Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
n.
The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Sting
v. t.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
adv.
In a stingy manner.
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.
v. t.
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
a.
Having no sting.
n.
Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
n.
A sting ray.
v. t. & i.
To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
v. t.
To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of.
n.
The quality or state of being stingy.
superl.
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
a.
Stinging; able to sting.
n.
One who, or that which, stings.
n.
The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
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