stint

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.Examples: "We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt"; "O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]"; "And stint thou too, I pray thee."Synonyms: anchor, astand, blin, brake, cease, desist, draw up, grind to a haltarchaicintransitive

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).intransitiveobsolete

3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.Examples: "The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer."Synonyms: skimpintransitive

4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.Examples: "I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants"; "She stints them in their meals."; "Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled. Worse, it stints the film's analysis, and by not being totally honest, causes and plays upon some dangerous misunderstanding."transitive

5. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.Examples: "The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work."