Adjacent Words

Stained definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STAINED, pp. Discolored; spotted; dyed; blotted; tarnished.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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: stained, varnished]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stain Stain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stained; 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 processess 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 ornament 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 so 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see stain

Moby Thesaurus

bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blackened, colored, darkened, deep, deep-colored, defiled, dirtied, discolored, drabbled, draggled, dyed, fouled, foxed, foxy, full, full-colored, hued, imbued, in Technicolor, in color, inky, murky, smirched, smoky, smudged, soiled, spotted, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, sullied, tainted, tarnished, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, toned, wash-colored