Stain, n. 1. A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth. Shak.
2. A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. Pope.
3. Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains. Dryden.
Our opinion... is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy. Hooker.
4. Cause of reproach; shame. Sir P. Sidney.
5. A tincture; a tinge.
You have some stain of soldier in you. Shak.
Syn. — Blot; spot; taint; pollution; blemish; tarnish; color; disgrace; infamy; shame.