A blemish on one's character or reputation.
A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
A discoloured spot or area.
Any of a number of non-standard tinctures used in modern heraldry.
A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
To coat a surface with a stain
To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
To discolour.
To become stained; to take a stain.
A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
A tinge, trace or touch.
A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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.
The perineum.
To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
To spoil (food) by contamination.
To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.