[Agent-n. from TAINT v.]
† 1. [Cf. TAINT v. A.] One who brings legal evidence against another for conviction of some crime; an accuser, informer. Obs.
1451. Sc. Acts Jas. II. (1814), II. 40/2. Þat na man haf out of þe Realme gold bulȝeone or siluer vnder þe payn of escheite þareof, þe tane half to þe king & þe toþir half to þe tayntour & þe takar.
2. [a. AF. teintour = OF. teintor, -ur, -eur.] A dyer. rare.
1889. McAnally in Pop. Sci. Monthly, Oct., 812. The cloth … finished and ready for the Dyer, Litter, or Lister, or the Norman Taintor or Taintur.
