Vocabulary : Tailstock to Tainture
Tailstock : The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.Tail-water : Water in a tailrace.
Tailzie : An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
Tain : Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
Taint : Aphetic form of Attaint. ;; A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. ;; 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. ;; To thrust ineffectually with a lance. ;; To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. ;; To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. ;; 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. ;; Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish. ;; To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting. ;; To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather. ;; Tincture; hue; color; tinge. ;; Infection; corruption; deprivation. ;; A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
