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

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

3. (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.

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

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

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

7. (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.

8. (n.) A touch or hit.

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

10. (n.) 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.

11. (n.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.

12. (n.) An infecting influence.

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