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- English Word Taint Definition Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
- English Word Taint Definition 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.
- English Word Taint Definition To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- English Word Taint Definition To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- English Word Taint Definition To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- English Word Taint Definition 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.
- English Word Taint Definition A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- English Word Tainted Definition of Taint
- English Word Tainting Definition of Taint
- English Word Taintless Definition Free from taint or infection; pure.
- English Word Taintlessly Definition In a taintless manner.
- English Word Tainture Definition Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.
- English Word Taintworm Definition A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
- English Word Taira Definition Same as Tayra.
- English Word Tairn Definition See Tarn.
- English Word Tait Definition A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
- English Word Tajacu Definition Alt. of Tajassu
- English Word Tajassu Definition The common, or collared, peccary.
- English Word Take Definition To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
- English Word Take Definition The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
- English Word Take Definition That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
- English Word Take Definition To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
- English Word Take Definition To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
- English Word Take Definition To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
- English Word Take Definition To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
- English Word Take Definition To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
- English Word Take Definition To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
- English Word Take Definition To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
- English Word Take Definition Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
- English Word Take Definition To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.