[f. STING sb.2 + -ED2.] Furnished or armed with a sting (lit. and fig.).
1552. Huloet, Prycked or stynged, Aculeatus.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 88. You shall haue all those that lacke stinges presently come flying about you, which the stinged waspes neuer are seene to doe.
1782. J. Brown, View Nat. & Revealed Relig., V. ii. (1796), 355. Christ’s death being stinged by the curse, he met it with agony and terror.
1858. W. R. Pirie, Inq. Hum. Mind, vii. 348. The drones … are killed by the more numerous stinged masses.
a. 1882. Christina G. Rossetti, Ballad of Boding, 27. Stinged Worm meseemed loathly in his place.
