a. rare. [f. STAIN sb. + -Y.] Like a stain or something stained. Hence Staininess.

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1864.  Mrs. A. Gatty, Parab. Nature, Ser. IV. 23. The beets had an odd stainy look.

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1905.  W. Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism, I. 276. To correct the qualities of thinness and staininess which, over a dry ground, transparent colours would exhibit.

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