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Stinting
- verb - avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
Stonebow
- - A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Stonefly
- noun - primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
Stoniest
- adjective - abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
- hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
Stonings
- noun - the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
Stun Gun
- noun - a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock
Stundist
- - One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship.
Stunners
- noun - a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- an unexpected and amazing event; "the stunner was what happened on Saturday"
Stunning
- verb - causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
- causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; "laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"; "a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
- commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
- hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
- make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
- overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
- strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
Stunsail
- - A contraction of Studding sail.