Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Taint

Taint (?), n. [Cf. F. atteinte a blow, bit, stroke. See Attaint.] 1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a...

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Taint (2)

Taint, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Tainted (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tainting.] To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

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Taint (3)

Taint, v. t. 1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.Do not fear; I haveA staff to taint, ...

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Taint (4)

Taint, v. t. [F. teint, p. p. of teindre to dye, tinge, fr. L. tingere, tinctum. See Tinge, and cf. Tint.] 1. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with s...

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Taint (5)

Taint (?), v. i. 1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.I can not taint with fear. Shak.2. To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat ...

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Taint (6)

Taint, n. 1. Tincture; hue; color; tinge.2. Infection; corruption; deprivation.He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to...

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Taint (7)

Taint (?), v. t. Aphetic form of Attaint.

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Taintless

Taint″less, a. Free from taint or infection; pure.

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Taintlessly

Taint″less‐ly, adv. In a taintless manner.

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Tainture

Tain″ture (?), n. [F. teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf. Tincture.] Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.

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Taintworm

Taint″worm′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

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Taiping

{ Tai″ping″, orTae″ping″ } (?), a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-po...

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Taira

Tai″ra (?), n.(Zoöl.) Same as Tayra.

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Tairn

Tairn (?), n. See Tarn. Coleridge.

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Tait

Tait (?), n.(Zoöl.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, ...

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Taj Mahal

Taj Ma‐hal″ (täj mȧ‐häl″). [Corruption of Per. Mumtāz-i-Maḥal, lit., the distinguished one of the palace, fr. Ar.] A marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul Emperor ...

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Tajaçu

{ Ta‐jaç″u, Ta‐jas″su } (?), n. [Pg. tajaçú, from Braz. tayaçú a hog or swine.] (Zoöl.) The common, or collared, peccary.

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Take

Take (?), obs.p. p. of Take. Taken. Chaucer.

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Take (2)

Take, v. t. [imp.Took (?); p. p.Takend (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Taking.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. tēkan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; ...

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Take (3)

Take (?), v. i. 1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak.W...

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Take (4)

Take, n. 1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.

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Take (5)

Take (tāk), v. t. 1. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene.2. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he took me in the face...

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Take-in

Take″–in′ (?), n. Imposition; fraud.

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Take-off

Take″–off′ (?), n. An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

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Take-off (2)

Take″–off′, n. The spot at which one takes off; specif., the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.The take-off should be selected with great care, and a pit of large dimen...

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Take-up

Take″–up′ (?), n.(Mach.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

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Taken

Tak″en (?), p. p. of Take.