Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stent \Stent\, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.]
[See Stint.]
To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or
cease; to stint.
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Then would he weep, he might not be stent. --Chaucer.
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Yet n'ould she stent
Her bitter railing and foul revilement. --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stent \Stent\, v. i.
To stint; to stop; to cease.
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And of this cry they would never stenten. --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stent \Stent\, n.
An allotted portion; a stint. "Attain'd his journey's stent."
--Mir. for Mag.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stent
n 1: a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a
blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical
anastomosis