Word Meanings - BESTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stain.

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• STAIN
  1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
• STAINLESS
  Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
• STAINER
  1. One who stains or tarnishes. 2. A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
• STAINLESSLY
  In a stainless manner.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• ABSTAIN
  To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
• SUSTAINMENT
  The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.
• SUSTAINER
  One who, or that which, sustains. Waterland.
• SUSTAINED
  Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.
• DISTAIN
  To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser.
• BESTAIN
  To stain.
• ABSTAINER
  One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.