To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
To flee one's country and seek asylum.
To join the enemy army.
A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
A fault or malfunction.
The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
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 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.
A tinge, trace or touch.
A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
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.