Usually means: Impurities or defects that spoil.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. taints: Merriam-Webster
  2. taints: Collins English Dictionary
  3. taints: Vocabulary.com
  4. Taints, taints: Wordnik
  5. taints: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. taints: Wiktionary
  7. taints: Dictionary.com
  8. taints: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. taints: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. taints: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. taints: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. taints: Medical dictionary

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  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (taint)

noun:  A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
noun:  A tinge, trace or touch.
noun:  A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
noun:  (obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.
noun:  (obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
noun:  (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
verb:  (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
verb:  (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
verb:  (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
verb:  (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
verb:  (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
verb:  (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
noun:  A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
noun:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
noun:  (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
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