\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.