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tincture
[ tingk-cher ]
noun
- Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
- a slight infusion, as of some element or quality:
A tincture of education had softened his rude manners.
- a trace; a smack or smattering; tinge:
a tincture of irony.
- Heraldry. any of the colors, metals, or furs used for the fields, charges, etc., of an escutcheon or achievement of arms.
- a dye or pigment.
verb (used with object)
- to impart a tint or color to; tinge.
- to imbue or infuse with something.
tincture
/ ˈtɪŋktʃə /
noun
- pharmacol a medicinal extract in a solution of alcohol
- a tint, colour, or tinge
- a slight flavour, aroma, or trace
- any one of the colours or either of the metals used on heraldic arms
- obsolete.a dye or pigment
verb
- tr to give a tint or colour to
Other Words From
- pre·tincture noun
- un·tinctured adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of tincture1
Example Sentences
What drew you to the study of philosophy, and how does that subject tincture your fiction?
These days, PCP comes dissolved in an oily yellow tincture called “wet.”
It should not exceed the ounce of tincture: about two drachms may be added after using it for paper.
Tincture of guaiac, diluted to a light sherry-wine color (keep in a dark-glass bottle).
To-night she lingered over a book, reading and musing, with a tincture of gloom in her thought-pictures.
Goss and Hale used the tincture of the fresh leaves and so the homœopaths have always used it.
Suffused with the Slavonic spirit and its tincture of Orientalism, the importation assumed a character of its own.
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