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To tend or point toward the north; to north. Sir T. Browne.

s; 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.

An opening in a wall in a coal mine. [Written also stenton.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.

Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.

A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.

Stentorian. [R.]

Stentorian. [Obs.]

Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian. [Obs.] Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican. Derham.

Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.

Sustenance. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.

To sustain. [R.] C. Reade.

s by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth. Sustentation fund (Eccl.), a fund of a religious body for support of its ministers, chapels, etc.; as, the sustentation fund of the Free Church of Scotland.

Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations. Sustentative functions (Physiol.), those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.

Sustentation. [R. or Colloq.] In fine images, in sustention, in irony, they surpass anything that Burke ever wrote. J. Morley.

Inattentive; careless.

Impenitent. Sandys.

To bring out of a tent. [R.] Shak.

Having no tent or tents, as a soldier or a field.