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Arsenic :: Arsenic (n.) One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of

Spot :: Spot (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse..

Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..

Sullies :: Sully (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.

Soil :: Soil (n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully..

Cloud :: Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.

Magnesium :: Magnesium (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75..

Darken :: Darken (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

Tarnish :: Tarnish (n.) The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.

Dull :: Dull (v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

Tarnished :: Tarnished (imp. & p. p.) of Tarnis.

Stainer :: Stainer (n.) One who stains or tarnishes.

Smoky :: Smoky (superl.) Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells..

Blemish :: Blemish (v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame..

Stain :: Stain (n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.

Tarnish :: Tarnish (v. i.) To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air..

Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..

Distain :: Distain (v. t.) 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.

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