Definition of sting

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Sting (v. t.) 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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Specific :: Specific (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice..
Acquiescent :: Acquiescent (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy..
Leguminous :: Leguminous (a.) Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
Diptych :: Diptych (n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.
Earring :: Earring (n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant..
Zonar :: Zonar (n.) A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.
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Honeycomb :: Honeycomb (n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb..
Poake :: Poake (n.) Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc..
Masculine :: Masculine (a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender..
Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..
Polyembryonate :: Polyembryonate (a.) Consisting of, or having, several embryos; polyembryonic..
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Noun :: Noun (n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive..
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Wresting :: Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wres.
Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..
Homogeneous :: Homogeneous (a.) Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies..
Color :: Color (n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.
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