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ts; 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.

The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. Jer. Taylor.

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. Farrar.

That which coexists with another. The law of coexistent vibrations. Whewell.

Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey.

In a consistent manner.

Distended. [Poetic] Thomson.

ct of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. [Archaic] Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.

Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory.

In an inconsistent manner.

Inconsistency. [R.]