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Stained

Stain \Stain\ (st[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stained (st[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Staining.] [Abbrev. fr. distain.]

  1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

  2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processes affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.

  3. To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.

    Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
    --Milton.

  4. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

    She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    That did all other beasts in beauty stain.
    --Spenser.

    Stained glass, glass colored or stained by certain metallic pigments fused into its substance, -- often used for making ornamental windows.

    Syn: To paint; dye; blot; soil; sully; discolor; disgrace; taint.

    Usage: Paint, Stain, Dye. These denote three different processes; the first mechanical, the other two, chiefly chemical. To paint a thing is to spread a coat of coloring matter over it; to stain or dye a thing is to impart color to its substance. To stain is said chiefly of solids, as wood, glass, paper; to dye, of fibrous substances, textile fabrics, etc.; the one, commonly, a simple process, as applying a wash; the other more complex, as fixing colors by mordants.

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stained
  1. 1 having a stain 2 coloured by adding a pigment v

  2. (en-past of: stain)

WordNet
stained
  1. adj. marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter; "a badly stained tablecloth"; "tear-stained cheeks" [ant: unstained]

  2. having a coating of stain or varnish [syn: varnished]

  3. especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" [syn: besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted, sullied, tainted, tarnished]

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Usage examples of "stained".

His life was stained with the most opposite vices, and the ulcers which covered his body, anticipated before his death the sentiment of hell-tortures.

The front of his jump suit split open to reveal his thin powder-blue T-shirt, stained a shade deeper by sweat The lightweight silk-smooth garment might be ideal for shipboard use, and even in an arcology, but for dealing with raw nature it was ridiculous.

While their eyes were fixed on the chariot where Stilicho was deservedly seated by the side of his royal pupil, they applauded the pomp of a triumph, which was not stained, like that of Constantine, or of Theodosius, with civil blood.

There were Portuguese ceramic clocks, Chinese Coptic balsa clocks, booming British grandfather clocks, imperial Ottoman clocks inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with panels of Kutahya tiles, clocks in polychrome, walnut and stained glass - it made the head spin to even think about them.

The barista was a round man with a black moustache and a stained apron.

His jeans and boots were much more disreputable-looking than hers, his batwing chaps stained and worn.

Bishop Bisse in 1717, and above it a Decorated window containing a stained glass representation of the Last Supper after the picture by Benjamin West.

When Corra ni Brith brought the dusty messenger to the door, thev found Aislinn, the front of her gown stained with breast milk, her feet filthy with ashes, her face radiant with joy.

A few spots of crimson now stained the mauve burka just below the mesh of the visor.

He wore nothing but a pair of stained homespun breeches, tied at the waist with a length of tarred rope, and was burned so dark by the sun that he might have been a Negro, save for the spill of long black hair that fell over one shoulder, decorated with bits of shell and tiny dried starfish tied into it.

Carter into a great domed space whose walls were carved in shocking bas-reliefs, and whose centre held a gaping circular pit surrounded by six malignly stained stone altars in a ring.

There is the usual gleaming white oversuit - the thermal micrometeorite garment - with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.

This network has the power of absorbing certain kinds of stains very actively, and is consequently deeply stained when treated as the microscopist commonly prepares his specimens.

When the tissue was frozen hard, I cranked out a section with the microtome, stained the slice, and took it to the microscope.

There can be little doubt that the great amount of stained glass still remaining in the minster is owing to the control he exercised over the Parliamentarians.