STIMULI, in botany; a species of armature or offensive weapon, with which some plants, as nettle, cassida, acalypha, and tragia, are furnished. Their use, says Linnæus, is by their venomous punctures to keep
Sing keep off naked animals that would approach to hurt them.
Stiria. STING, an apparatus in the bodies of certain insects, in form of a little spear, serving them as a weapon of offence.
Sting-Ray, in ichthyology. See RAY.
Falconer. STINK-POT, an earthen jar or shell, charged with Marine Dictionary. powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell. It is frequently used by privateers, in the western ocean, in the attack of an enemy whom he designs to board; for which purpose it is furnished with a light fuse at the opening or touch-hole. See BOARDING.