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cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"

saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"

cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"

deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"

cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"

a painful wound caused by the thrust of a stinger into skin

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"

saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"

cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.

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.

Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.

A goad; incitement.

The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.

To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.

To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.

The sharp-pointed, often poisonous, organ with which certain animals and insects are furnished; one of the stiff, sharp-pointed, hollow hairs of certain plants; the thrust of such an organ or hair; the wound made by it; a sharp, smarting mental or physical pain.

To pierce or wound with, or as with, a sting; cause a sharp, smarting pain to; as, cold stings the face; goad or drive, as by taunts or reproaches; cause to suffer keenly; as, remorse stings his soul.

To inflict a sharp, smarting wound; as, the wasp stings; to be sharply painful.

Stinger.

Stung.

Stinging.

To stick anything sharp into, to pain acutely:-pa.t. and pa.p. stung.

The sharp-pointed weapon of some animals: the thrust of a sting into the flesh: anything that causes acute pain: the point in the last verse of an epigram.

Pointed weapon of some animals; puncture of a sting; anything causing sharp pain. esp. with a sting; pain acutely.

To pierce with a sting; use a sting.

To cause a sensation, as from a sting.

To be keenly painful.

The act of stinging; the wound made by a sting.

Zool. A sharp organ capable of inflicting a painful and poisonous wound.

A spur; goad.

A stinging hair or cell; the spine of a sting-ray; an offensive and defensive organ for piercing, and usually also for inoculating with poison, as in the wasp.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] A sharp-pointed weapon or instrument with which certain animals are armed by nature for their defence ;-the thrust of a sting into the flesh ;-any thing that gives acute pain ;-the point of an epigram or other pointed, sarcastic saying ;-in botany, a glandular hair or filament on the leaves of some plants secreting a poisonous fluid, as the nettle.