tailstock

[Eng. tail (1), and stock. ] [DEADHEAD, 3.] *tail-wõrt, s. [Eng. tail , and wort .] Bot . ( pl .): An old name given by Lindley to the order Triuridaceae (q. v.). tail-zie (z as y), tāil-yle, s . [Fr. tailler =to cut off.] An old term to denote a deed creating an entailed estate. ( Scotch .) sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. tailzie tail-zie (z as y), tail-yše, v. t. [TAILZIE, 8.) To entail, as an estate, . ( Scotch.) tāin, subst. [Mid. Eng. teine, teyne, a thin plate; Lat. tænia =a band, a fillet.] 1. Thin tin-plate. 2. Tinfoil for mirrors. tāint (1), *tainte, v. t. & i. [TAINT, 8.] A. Transitive: 1. To imbue or impregnate with something noxious, poisonous, or odious; to poison, to infect. "The whole air of Somersets hire was tainted with death."-Macaulay. Hist . Eng . , ch. v. 2. To corrupt, as by incipient putrefaction; as, tainted meat. *3. To stain, to sully, to pollute, to contaminate. "Which, since they are of you, and odious, I will not taint my mouth with." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., iii. 2. *4. To make corrupt; to vitiate. "With new glozes tainte the text." Warner: Albions England, ix. 52. *5. To attaint (q. v.). B. Intransitive: 3990 tāint'-ure, s. [Fr., from Lat. tinctura =tincture. dye.] Taint, tinge, stain, defilement. "Preserve them safe from all the pestilent taintures of schism and heresie." - Bp . Hall: Soliloquy 29. täirge, s. [TARGE.) ( Scotch.) täirn, 8. [TARN.]