Definition of Stingings

1. stinging [n] - See also: stinging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stingings

stinged
stinger
stingerless
stingers
stingfish
stingfishes
stingier
stingiest
stingily
stinginess
stinginesses
stinging
stinging hair
stinging nettle
stingingly
stingings
stingless
stingo
stingos
stingray
stingrays
stings
stingy
stink
stink-bomb
stink-cat
stink-cats
stink badger
stink badgers
stink bell

Literary usage of Stingings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"... a Dr. Terc has found a cure for rheumatism in bee-stingings. Having found that every stinging is followed by a swelling up to a point when the body ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"... followed by a swelling up to a point when the body seems to have become hardened against further effect, he tried the stingings on a rheumatic patient. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"Some sharp stingings in the eighth and ninth right ribs (first day). ... Two sharp stingings in the seventh left rib, then over a larger surface ; at the ..."

4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"Whose stingings bade thy heart look further still, When to the moonlight walk by Henry led, Sweetly and sadly thou didst talk of death ? ..."

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