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stinkpot (medicine) and insensitive (iou)


stinkpot (medicine)


stinkpot


1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and Other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

2. A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

3. <zoology> The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See Musk.

Source: Websters Dictionary


insensitive (iou)



insensitive adjective. L16.
[from IN-3 + SENSITIVE adjective.]
Lacking mental or moral sensitivity; not susceptible; indifferent; unsympathetic. L16.
Lacking physical feeling or consciousness; inanimate. E17-E18.
Of an organ, limb, etc.: lacking in feeling or sensation. M19.
b. Of a substance, device, etc.: not susceptible or responsive to some physical influence, as that of light. L19.
c. Math. & Physics. Of a quantity: (relatively) unaffected by variation in some related quantity. M20.
insensitively adverb M20.
insensitiveness noun M19.
insensi'tivity noun lack of sensitivity M20.