Obs. [Irregular weak pa. pple. of STING v.1] Wounded by stinging, stung.

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1565.  Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., 14. Forthwyth all the force of the venim was staynched, and the swelling of the stinged bodies vtterly asswaged.

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1577.  Kendall, Flowers of Epigr., Trifles, 24 b. At last with tinglyng stynged hande, he comes his mother to.

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1682.  Otway, Venice Preserved, V. When our sting’d hearts haue leap’d to meet each other.

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