| stink | A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odour; a stench. Fire stink. See Fire. Stink-fire lance. See Lance. <zoology> Stink rat, the gizzard shad. Stink trap, a stench trap. See Stench. Origin: AS. Stinc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| stink weed | <botany> Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) Previous: stingy, stink, stinkard, stinker, stinkhorn, stinking, stinkpot, stinkstoneNext: stink weed, stinkwood, stint, stipe, stipel, stipellate, stipesstink weed datura stramonium |
| stinkard | 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. 2. <zoology> The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stinker | 1. One who, or that which, stinks. 2. <zoology> Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, as the giant fulmar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stinkhorn | <botany> A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stinking | <zoology> From Stink, Stinking badger, the teledu. <botany> Stinking cedar, the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stinkpot | 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. 2. A vessel in which disinfectants are burned. 3. <zoology> The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See Musk. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stinkstone | <chemical> One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odour on being struck. Synonym: swinestone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stinkweed | <botany> Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) Previous: stingy, stink, stinkard, stinker, stinkhorn, stinking, stinkpot, stinkstoneNext: stink weed, stinkwood, stint, stipe, stipel, stipellate, stipesstink weed datura stramonium |
| stinkwood | <botany> A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |