Stint , n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
God has wrote
upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
South. 2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion
allotted.
His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
Cowper.
Stint , v. i. 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.
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.
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.
2. To put
an end to; to stop. [Obs.]
Shak.
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.
4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
J. H. Walsh.
Stint (?), n.
(Zoöl.) (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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