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- English Word Tailrace Definition See Race, n., 6.
- English Word Tailrace Definition The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
- English Word Tailstock Definition The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
- English Word Tailzie Definition An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
- English Word Tain Definition Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
- English Word Taint Definition A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- 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 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 To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- 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 Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
- English Word Taint Definition To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
- English Word Taint Definition To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
- English Word Taint Definition Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
- English Word Taint Definition Infection; corruption; deprivation.
- English Word Taint Definition A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
- English Word Tainted Definition of Taint
- English Word Tainting Definition of Taint
- English Word Taintless Definition Free from taint or infection; pure.