Taint

tant, v.t. to tinge, moisten or impregnate with anything noxious: to infect to stain. v.L to be aflectecl with something corrupting — a stain or tincture: infection or corruption: a spot a moral blemish. 0 Fr. taint f ten pa.p. of teindre to dye— Ltinge, tineturn to wet or moisten. See Tinge Take, tak, v to lay hold of: to get into one’s po e ion to catch to capture to captivate to receive to choose to use to allow to understand: to agree to: to become affected with, v.t. to catch: to have the intended effect: to gain reception, to please: to move or direct the course of to have recourse to \—pa took pa.p. taken. Tak'er [A.S. tacan peril first from Ice taka conn with L. ta[u,g-o, te-tig-i, to touch, ami with t. Tack.]