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er from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. Burke.

Dwarfed. -- Stunt"ed*ness, n.

Stuntedness; brevity. [R.] Earle.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.

lossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several…

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

A stunted shrub, bush, or branch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.