TAINT

Taint

Taint were a three-piece metal band from Swansea, Wales. The band formed in 1994 while still teenagers, releasing a string of demos, compilation features and split records over eleven years until their first full length album, The Ruin of Nová Roma, was released in 2005. Their sophomore release entitled Secrets and Lies followed in 2007, with an ep, All Bees to the Sea, following in 2009.

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taint

Noun

  1. A , or , especially in
  2. A mark of , especially on one's ; blemish
  3. tincture; hue; colour
  4. infection; corruption; deprivation
    He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A with a , which fails of its intended .
  2. An done to a in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a or unscientific manner.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. The .

Verb

  1. To or (something) with an external , either or .
  2. To (food) by .
  3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
    Meat soon taints in warm weather.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
  3. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.


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