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▪ I. staining, vbl. n.|ˈsteɪnɪŋ|
[f. stain v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb stain, in various senses; also concr. a result of this action.
1382Wyclif Job xxviii. 19 Ne ther shal be maad euene to it topasie of Ethiope, ne to the most clene steynyng [Vulg. tincturæ mundissimæ] shal be comparisound. 1530Rastell Bk. Purgat. iii. viii. 2 The spottes and tokens of the steynynge whych remayne be than a great deformyte and eye sore. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. li. i, Clense still my spotts, still wash awaie my staynings. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 598 Their Painting is meere steyning or trowelling in respect of ours. 1652N. Culverwel Lt. Nature xv. (1661) 128 Far be it from me to drop one word, that should tend to the staining, and eclipsing of that just glory. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 79 This method of using water⁓colours is called painting; the other is called washing, or staining [i.e. tinting]. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 753 The colouring of maps is in fact only a species of staining. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 529 The wood..is well adapted..for staining. 1871Amer. Encycl. Printing (ed. Ringwalt), Staining, in bookbinding, the coloring of the edges, fly-leaves, and backs of books, either in solid shades, or in the process styled marbling. 1881W. B. Carpenter Microscope §202 (ed. 6) 247 For blue and green staining, the various Aniline dyes are principally used. 1907J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 70 A more or less deep staining of the film results.
†b. A pigment used for staining. Obs.
1541Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 175 Item, ane galkoit of stenyng, the price x s.
c. attrib.
1870Power tr. Stricker's Man. Histol. I. Introd. p. xxxiii, The staining fluid. 1880Gibbes Histol. 22 Of the staining agents, logwood is the most useful. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 38 Photograph No. 3 shows the men at work at the staining tables, and a portion of the staining room [glove-manufacture].
▪ II. staining, ppl. a. rare.|ˈsteɪnɪŋ|
[f. stain v. + -ing2.]
That stains, in senses of the verb.
For the use in quot. 1486 see stainand ppl. a.
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. b iij b, A gentilman mai not wear tokynys of armys bot of steining colowre, that is to say his cootarmure ynyat or ellis y geratt with preciouse stonys. 1601Shakes. All's Well iii. vii. 7, I..would not put my reputation now In any staining act. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 386 The better species of iron ores are generally accompanied with red staining soft soil, by which they are easily distinguished. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 281 She had no feminine horror of the staining epithet for that sex. |