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
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
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward
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
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck
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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