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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 coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

ed to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

fire to an enemy's ships. -- Fire shovel, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. -- Fire stink, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. Raymond. -- Fire surface, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combu…

To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

he chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.

purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.

-- Lance knight, a lansquenet. B. Jonson. -- Lance snake (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance. -- Stink-fire lance (Mil.), a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odor; -- used in the counter operations of miners. To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest.