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A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

A smell; an odor. [Obs.] Clouds of savory stench involve the sky. Dryden.

Having a stench. [Obs.] Dyer.

d with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness. Arbuthnot.

nemy'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 combustion; heati…

The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. Swift.

An offensive smell; a stench. [Low]

uses are built to live in; not to look on. Bacon. Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. Shak.

o hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke. Milton.

Smoke; smother. [Obs.] The smolder stops our nose with stench. Gascoigne.

A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench. Fire stink. See under Fire. -- Stink-fire lance. See under Lance. -- Stink rat (Zoöl.), the musk turtle. [Local, U.S.] -- Stink shad (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. [Local, U.S.] Stink trap, a stench trap. See under Stench.

aid the world with men was stored. Denham. Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. Sir M. Hale.