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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting;

as,

stinging

cold; a

stinging

rebuke.

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Sting′ing-ly

adv.

Stinging cell

(Zool.)

Same as

Lasso cell

, under

stinging ‎(comparative more stinging, superlative most stinging)

stinging

present participle of sting
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
  The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.

stinging ‎(plural stingings)

The act by which someone receives a sting.

the stingings of scorpions

stingings of remorse