stain n Small amount of a liquid; drop; freq after negative.
1924 ENGLAND 321 Stain o' rum-drink or small quantity of rum. [1929] 1933 GREENLEAF (ed) 241 "The Crowd of Bold Sharemen": For we were bound fishing in the Strait of Belle Isle, / Our skipper wouldn't give us one stain of our ile. T 393/4-67 Well, a tierce is around 44 gallons or 45, and when the molasses is out of that tierce, there's hardly a stain in it. P 148-69 Not a stain of oil [in the car]. 1976 Guy 67 I do believe I'll have another little stain out of that bottle if you don't mind.
