Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
Taint :: Taint (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect..
Taint :: Taint (n.) 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..
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting..
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) 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..
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.