(1):

(v.) A touch or hit.

(2):

(v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.

(3):

(v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; - said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

(4):

(v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.

(5):

(v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.

(6):

(v.) An infecting influence.

(7):

(v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.

(8):

(v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

(9):

(v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.

(10):

(v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

(11):

(p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.

(12):

(v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.