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or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. They that touch pitch will be defiled. Shak.

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

A soiling; defilement.

To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [Obs.] Blount.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

To blacken; also, to defile. [Obs. or Dial.] Wyclif.

A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson.

awful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton.

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue li…

of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Defilement. [Obs.]

Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. [An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis. Mozley & W.

To pollute; to defile. [Obs.] Cockeram.

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.