Taint(n.)
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
Taint(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.
Taint(v. i.)
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
Taint(v. t.)
- To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
Taint(v. t.)
- To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
Taint(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.
Taint(v. t.)
- Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
Taint(v. i.)
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Taint(v. i.)
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.