Change of wood color, without alteration of physical qualities, due to a disease, a foreign object or a physiological condition.
1The three took turns holding the samples up to the canvas, viewing the effects of the various shades of wood stain on the paintings.
2Wood stained in this manner should not be French polished or varnished, but waxed.
3The floor was of bare wood stained brown.
4The unlighted lamp cast its shadow on wood stained black by much use, but polished like ebony from the continued friction of men's garments.