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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STENT, for stint. [See Stint.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Charles Thomas Stent died 1885 English dentist Date: 1961 a short narrow metal or plastic tube often in the form of a mesh that is inserted into the lumen of an anatomical vessel (as an artery or a bile duct) especially to keep a previously blocked passageway open

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stent Stent, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. --Chaucer. Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stent Stent, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. --Chaucer. Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stent Stent, v. i. To stint; to stop; to cease. And of this cry they would never stenten. --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stent Stent, n. An allotted portion; a stint. ``Attain'd his journey's stent.'' --Mir. for Mag.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See stint.