sting
    n 1: a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being
         stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of
         nettles" [syn: sting, stinging]
    2: a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" [syn:
       pang, sting]
    3: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger
       into skin [syn: sting, bite, insect bite]
    4: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person
       to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game,
       bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence
       game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
    v 1: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun
         burned his face" [syn: bite, sting, burn]
    2: deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn:
       sting, bite, prick]
    3: saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They
       stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax
       bill" [syn: stick, sting]
    4: cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" [syn:
       prick, sting, twinge]
    5: cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung
       her"

Sting \Sting\, n. [AS. sting a sting. See Sting, v. t.]
   1. (Zool.) 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.
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   2. (Bot.) 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.
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   3. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the
      stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
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            The sting of death is sin.            --1 Cor. xv.
                                                  56.
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   4. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging;
      a wound inflicted by stinging. "The lurking serpent's
      mortal sting." --Shak.
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   5. A goad; incitement. --Shak.
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   6. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
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   Sting moth (Zool.), an Australian moth (Doratifera
      vulnerans) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body,
      with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.

   Sting ray. (Zool.) See under 6th Ray.

   Sting winkle (Zool.), a spinose marine univalve shell of
      the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex
      erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.
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Sting \Sting\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stung(Archaic Stang); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Stinging.] [AS. stingan; akin to Icel. & Sw.
   stinga, Dan. stinge, and probably to E. stick, v.t.; cf.
   Goth. usstiggan to put out, pluck out. Cf. Stick, v. t.]
   1. To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an
      animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
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   2. To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse;
      to bite. "Slander stings the brave." --Pope.
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   3. To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
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STING
       Software Technology Interest Group (CERN, org.)
       

STING

   A parallel dialect of Scheme intended to serve as a
   high-level operating system for symbolic programming
   languages.  First-class threads and processors and
   customisable scheduling policies.

   E-mail: .

   ["A Customizable Substrate for Concurrent Languages",
   S. Jagannathan et al, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1992].

   (1994-11-03)