Word Meanings - TAINTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.

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• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• STAIN
  1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
• TAINTURE
  Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
• STAINLESS
  Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
• TAINTLESSLY
  In a taintless manner.
• TINGENT
  Having the power to tinge. As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.
• STAINER
  1. One who stains or tarnishes. 2. A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
• TAINT
  1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. 2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance
• TAINTLESS
  Free from taint or infection; pure.
• STAINLESSLY
  In a stainless manner.
• TINGE
  To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color
• TINGER
  One who, or that which, tinges.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• ABSTAIN
  To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• STINGER
  One who, or that which, stings. Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• ATTINGE
  To touch lightly. Coles.
• CONTINGENCY
  A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected. Syn. -- Casualty; accident; chance. (more info) 1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency."
• SUSTAINMENT
  The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.
• CONTINGENTLY
  In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
• CONTINGENCE
  See CONTINGENCY
• HYDRA-TAINTED
  Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.
• TRAVEL-TAINTED
  Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak.
• ATTAINT
  To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone. (more info) ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4,