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To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1).

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers." Piers Plowman.

The act or work of a tinker.

After the manner of a tinker. [R.]

The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

ck, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink. As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. Dodsley.

A tinker. [Prov. Eng.]

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

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.