v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Stunk Stank p. pr. & vb. n. Stinking. ] [ AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. &unr_; rancid. Cf. Stench. ] To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to stink; to affect by a stink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. stinc. ] A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fire stink. See under Fire. --
Stink-fire lance. See under Lance. --
Stink rat (Zool.), the musk turtle. [ Local, U.S. ] --
Stink shad (Zool.), the gizzard shad. [ Local, U.S. ] --
Stink trap, a stench trap. See under Stench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, stinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Stink, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stinking badger (Zool.), the teledu. --
Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel in which disinfectants are burned. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. tinken; of imitative origin. Cf. Ting a tinkling, Tinker. ] To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Tink, because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson. ] 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. “Tailors and tinkers.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ordnance) A small mortar on the end of a staff. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) (a) A young mackerel about two years old. (b) The chub mackerel. (c) The silversides. (d) A skate. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The razor-billed auk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tinkered p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkering. ] To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or work of a tinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. After the manner of a tinker. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Zool.) The common guillemot. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle. ] 1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink. [ 1913 Webster ]

As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sprightly horse
Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. Dodsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkling. ] To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tinker. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]