Pointer and Sting

pointer

A mark to indicate a direction or relation.
- synonyms: arrow
An indicator as on a dial.
Computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions.
- synonyms: cursor
A strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game.
- synonyms: Spanish pointer

(n.) The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.
(n.) One who or that which, points.
(n.) The hand of a timepiece.
(n.) Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.
(n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

sting

A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.
- usage: "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"
- synonyms: stinging
A mental pain or distress.
- usage: "a pang of conscience"
- synonyms: pang
A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.
- synonyms: bite, insect bite
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
- synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, flimflam

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.
- usage: "The sun burned his face"
- synonyms: bite, burn
Deliver a sting to.
- usage: "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- synonyms: bite, prick
Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.
- usage: "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
- synonyms: stick
Cause a stinging pain.
- usage: "The needle pricked his skin"
- synonyms: prick, twinge
Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.
- usage: "His remark stung her"

(v.t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
(v.t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
(v.t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
(v.t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
(v.t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
(v.t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
(v.t.) A goad; incitement.
(v.t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
(v.t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Sting is a masculine given name