These are the meanings of the letters ATINT when you unscramble them.
- Taint (n.)
A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
- Taint (n.)
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- Taint (n.)
An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- Taint (n.)
Infection; corruption; deprivation.
- Taint (n.)
Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
- Taint (v. i.)
To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
- Taint (v. i.)
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
- Taint (v. i.)
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- Taint (v. t.)
Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
- Taint (v. t.)
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- Taint (v. t.)
To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
- Taint (v. t.)
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- Titan (a.)
Titanic.