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The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe.

A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.

Same as Steenkirk.

The wheater. [Prov. Eng.]

The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.

A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

One who, or that which, stinks.

A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.

from Stink, v. Stinking badger (Zoöl.), the teledu. -- Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).

In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.

Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.

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.

A glimpse or flash of the sun. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.

A laborer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.