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Stain
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
(2):
(n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
(3):
(n.) A tincture; a tinge.
(4):
(v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
(5):
(n.) Cause of reproach; shame.
(6):
(v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
(7):
(v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
(8):
(n.) A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
(9):
(v. i.) To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
(10):
(v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stain'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/stain.html. 1828.
