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soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. Shak.

To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. Shak.

The soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains. Milton. With jellies soother than the creamy curd. Keats.

sh with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. J. Dryden. Jr.

The state of being foamy; frothiness.

Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy. The spumous and florid state of the blood. Arbuthnot. The spumy waves proclaim the watery war. Dryden.

To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish. Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton.

The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.

Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization. The blackest stigma that can be fastened upon him. Bp. Hall. All such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery. Sir G. Buck.…

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] Bullokar.

Impressing with infamy or reproach. [R.]

With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. Addison.

The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.

gy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, and tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

ound in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.

orth American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay. -- Swamp sparrow (Zoöl.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. -- Swamp willow…

A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.

The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.