Meaning of कलंक in English

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.
A moral stain or blot.
The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.
A taking away or withdrawing.
The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To disparage; to traduce.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
Infection; corruption; deprivation.
A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
One who, or that which, tarnishes.
A steward; an overseer.
See Graft.
Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
of Stigma
pl. of Stigma.
The act of stigmatizing.
The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma, 8.
Same as Stigmatic.
Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.
A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
A mountain lake or pool.