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To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

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

Sullen; sad. [Obs.] Spenser.

Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.

Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Obs.] With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.

Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.

A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also sulliage, and sullage.] Sir H. Wotton.

To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate. T. Hook.

The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.

Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.

Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. "That surly spirit, melancholy." Shak.

Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish. His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. Shak.

uced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color. "Tarnished lace." Fuller. Used also figuratively; as, to tarnish one's honor.

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.

ughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden.