STENT

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To keep within limits; to restain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. Chaucer. Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. Spenser.

2.
v.

To stint; to stop; to cease. And of this cry they would never stenten. Chaucer.

3.
n.

An allotted portion; a stint. "Attain'd his journey's stent." Mir. for Mag.

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