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What's The Definition Of Stint?

\Stint\, n. (Zo["o]l.) (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.
\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\, 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\, 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.