Stint | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Stĭnt, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. STINTED; p. pr. & vb. n. STINTING.] [O. Eng. stent, A-S. stintan, styntan, to blunt, dull; Norw. stinta, to have enough. Cf. STUNT.]

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals. “Stinted all the strife.” Spenser. Nature wisely stints our appetite. Dryden.
To assign a certain task in labor to, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time. [Colloq. U. S.]

Stĭnt, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To stop; to restrain one's self. And stint thou too, I pray thee. Shak. The damsel stinted in her song. W. Scott.

Stĭnt, n.

noun

(Ornith.) A small, grallatory bird, of the genus Tringa.

Stĭnt, n.

noun

[Also written stent, q. v.]

Sense 1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. South.

Sense 2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted.

Our stint of woe Is common. Shak.