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Cerium :: Cerium (n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air..

Tarnisher :: Tarnisher (n.) One who, or that which, tarnishes..

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

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

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

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

Stain :: Stain (v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.

Injure :: Injure (v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind..

Sully :: Sully (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation..

Slander :: Slander (v. t.) To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.

Tarnishing :: Tarnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tarnis.

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

Aspersion :: Aspersion (n.) The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny..

Asperse :: Asperse (v. t.) To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character..

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

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

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

Defile :: Defile (v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint..

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

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

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