Word Meanings - SOILINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Stain; foulness. Bacon.
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- FOULNESS
The quality or condition of being foul. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - 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.