stent

Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

stent(n = noun.artifact) Array - a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis; Array

stent, v. t. [See Stint.].

To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. [1913 Webster]

"Then would he weep, he might not be stent." [1913 Webster]

"Yet n'ould she stent
Her bitter railing and foul revilement." [1913 Webster]

stent, v. i.

To stint; to stop; to cease. [1913 Webster]

"And of this cry they would never stenten." [1913 Webster]

stent, n.

An allotted portion; a stint. Mir. for Mag. [1913 Webster]