To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To run together; to articulate poorly.
To insult or slight.
To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
An insinuation or innuendo.
An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
To spoil (food) by contamination.
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 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.