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STINT, v.t. [Gr., narrow.]

1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals.

Nature wisely stints our appetite.

2. To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

STINT, n. A small bird, the Tringa cinctus.

STINT, n.

1. Limit; bound; restraint.

2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint.

Our stint of woe is common.


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STINT, v.t. [Gr., narrow.]

1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals.

Nature wisely stints our appetite.

2. To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

STINT, n. A small bird, the Tringa cinctus.

STINT, n.

1. Limit; bound; restraint.

2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint.

Our stint of woe is common.

STINT, n.1

A small grallatory bird, the Tringa cinclus.


STINT, n.2

  1. Limit; bound; restraint. – Dryden.
  2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint. Our stint of woe / Is common. – Shak.

STINT, v.i. [Sax. stintan, to stint, or stunt; Ice. stunta; Gr. στενος, narrow.]

  1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals. Nature wisely stints our appetite. – Dryden.
  2. To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

Stint
  1. 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)
  2. 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.

  3. To stop; to cease.

    [Archaic]

    They can not stint till no thing be left. Chaucer.

    And stint thou too, I pray thee. Shak.

    The damsel stinted in her song. Sir W. Scott.

  4. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

    God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. South.

  5. To put an end to; to stop.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  6. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

    His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. Cowper.

  7. 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.
  8. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.

    The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. J. H. Walsh.

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Stint

STINT, verb transitive [Gr., narrow.]

1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals.

Nature wisely stints our appetite.

2. To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

STINT, noun A small bird, the Tringa cinctus.

STINT, noun

1. Limit; bound; restraint.

2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint

Our stint of woe is common.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

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LAND, n.

1. Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part. Hence we say, the globe is terraqueous, consisting of land and water. The seaman in a long voyage longs to see land.

2. Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region. The United States is denominated the land of freedom.

Go, view the land, even Jericho. Josh. 2.

3. Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground. We speak of the quantity of land in a manor. Five hundred acres of land is a large farm.

4. Ground; soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality; as good land; poor land; moist or dry land.

5. Real Estate. A traitor forfeits all his lands and tenements.

6. The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people.

These answers in the silent night received, the king himself divulged, the land believed.

7. The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land.

To make the land,

To make land, In seaman's language, is to discover land from sea, as the ship approaches it.

To shut in the land, to lose sight of the land left, by the intervention of a point or promontory.

To set the land, to see by the compass how it bears from the ship.

LAND, n. Urine; whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. Obs.

LAND, v.t. to set on shore; to disembark; to debark; as, to land troops from a ship or boat; to land goods.

LAND, v.i. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

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