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Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." H. Taylor.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] "Profulgent in preciousness." Chaucer.

a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

In a pungent manner; sharply.

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.

Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- Re*ful"gent*ly, adv. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth. Boyle.

Ruling; governing; regnant. "Some other active regent principle . . . which we call the soul." Sir M. Hale.

rats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701.

A female regent. [R.] Cotgrave.

The office of a regent; regency.

Restringing; astringent; styptic. [Obs.] -- n.

Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.

Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

Indulging one's appetites, desires, etc., freely.

The tangent of half an arc.

Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules. They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringent code of procedure. Macaulay. -- Strin"gent*ly, adv. -- Strin"gent*ness, n.

A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.

Somewhat astringent.