Of honor void,
Of innocence, of faith, of purity,
Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton.

She stains the ripest virgins of her age. Beau. *** Fl.

That did all other beasts in beauty stain. Spenser.

Stained glass, glass colored or stained by certain metallic pigments fused into its substance, -- often used for making ornament windows.

Syn. -- To paint] dye; blot; soil; sully; discolor; disgrace; taint. -- Paint, Stain, Dye. These denote three different processes; the first mechanical, the other two, chiefly chemical. To paint a thing is so spread a coat of coloring matter over it; to stain or dye a thing is to impart color to its substance. To stain is said chiefly of solids, as wood, glass, paper; to dye, of fibrous substances, textile fabrics, etc.; the one, commonly, a simple process, as applying a wash; the other more complex, as fixing colors by mordants.

Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. Pope.

Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains. Dryden.

Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy. Hooker.

You have some stain of soldier in you. Shak.

Syn. -- Blot; spot; taint; pollution; blemish; tarnish; color; disgrace; infamy; shame.