Definition of Sting

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Definition of Sting

Sting

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.

The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.

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.

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Sting Quotations

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Grantland Rice

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Elton John

Sting Translations

sting in Danish is stikke
sting in Dutch is pikken, prikken, priemen, steken
sting in French is morsure, aiguillon, piquons, piquer, piquent
sting in German is stechen
sting in Italian is colpo, pungere
sting in Latin is fodio, spiculum, morsus
sting in Norwegian is stikke
sting in Spanish is pinchar, puntura, picadura

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