rare. [f. STAIN v. + -ING2.] That stains, in senses of the verb.
For the use in quot. 1486 see STAINAND ppl. a.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, Her., b iij b. A gentilman mai not wear tokynys of armys bot of steining colowre, that is to say his cootarmure ynyat or ellis y geratt with preciouse stonys.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, III. vii. 7. I … would not put my reputation now In any staining act.
1789. J. Williams, Min. Kingd., I. 386. The better species of iron ores are generally accompanied with red staining soft soil, by which they are easily distinguished.
1880. Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 281. She had no feminine horror of the staining epithet for that sex.
