[-ING1.] The action of the verb STINK; an instance of this.
a. 1320. Sir Tristr., 1177. No man miȝt bi him stand For stinking of his wounde.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 302, in Babees Bk. Þy tethe be not pikynge,… ne stynkynge of brethe on youre souerayne castynge.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 43. The waters dividing the streetes, slowly or not at all moved, are in this City … subject to stinking.
1822. Shelley, Scenes fr. Faust, ii. 213. What glimmering, spurting, stinking, burning.
