n.
The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
n.
The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
n.
An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
n.
Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
n.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
n.
An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
v. i.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
v. t.
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
v. t.
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
v. t.
To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
v. t.
Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
v. i.
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
v. i.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
n.
Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
n.
Infection; corruption; deprivation.
n.
A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.