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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
stint
n 1: an unbroken period of time during which you do something;
"there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the
federal penitentiary" [syn: stretch, stint]
2: smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper, stint,
Erolia minutilla]
3: an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a
lifeguard exhausted her"
v 1: subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn:
scrimp, stint, skimp]
2: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with
the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Sanderling \San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because
it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the
seashore.] (Zool.)
A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very
common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called
also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Stint \Stint\, v. i.
To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
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They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer.
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And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak.
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The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Stint \Stint\, n. (Zool.)
(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.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Stint \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.
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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.
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She stints them in their meals. --Law.
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2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person),
upon the performance of which one is excused from further
labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
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4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
while at work. --J. H. Walsh.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
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God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint
of his power. --South.
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2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
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His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
--Cowper.
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7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
STINT, Eng. law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may
keep upon the common.
2. To use a thing without stint, is to use it without limit.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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