
n. (Zool.)
v. t.
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
She stints them in their meals. Law. [ 1913 Webster ]
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. J. H. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To stop; to cease. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
They can not stint till no thing be left. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
And stint thou too, I pray thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The damsel stinted in her song. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ Also written stent. See Stint, v. t. ]
God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. Restraint; stoppage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being stinted. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, stints. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without stint or restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]
The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]