Sting
Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
A goad; incitement.
The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
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Sting Quotations
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francis Quarles
I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Elton John
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens
In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
Victoria Wood
I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Robert Toombs
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
George Byron
Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
Colin Mochrie
If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.
Steven Adler
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley
Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
Tatum O'Neal
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
Robert Guillaume
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
John C. Hawkes
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
Richard Savage
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Grantland Rice
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
Jack Dee
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
Dinah Maria Mulock
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Sting Translations
sting in Danish is stikke
sting in Dutch is pikken, prikken, priemen, steken
sting in French is morsure, aiguillon, piquons, piquer, piquent
sting in German is stechen
sting in Italian is colpo, pungere
sting in Latin is fodio, spiculum, morsus
sting in Norwegian is stikke
sting in Spanish is pinchar, puntura, picadura
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