tinct
verb (used with object)
to tinge or tint, as with color.
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tinct
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[tingkt]
/ tɪŋkt /
verb (used with object)
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to tinge or tint, as with color.
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Obsolete. to imbue.
adjective
noun
tinct.
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abbreviation
tinct
British
/ tɪŋkt /
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of tinct
1425–75 for earlier alchemical sense; 1585–95 tinct for def. 1; 1595–1605 tinct for def. 4; late Middle English < Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingere to dye, color, tinge
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The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Know, O my lord, that anon will come to us a little craft bearing a banner of azure tinct and all its planks are of chaunders and lign-aloes of Comorin, the most precious of woods.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Artifice is the strength of the world, and in that same mask of paint and powder, shadowed with vermeil tinct and most trimly pencilled, is woman's strength.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
O voice tinct with the spirit's sweetness, Last tone of heaven's clear harmonies Ere in the silence of wide space it dies, Music's completeness!
From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard
Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
For this condition use Conium first, and apply it in tinct., half water, to the eyes every four hours.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by Hill, B. L. (Benjamin L.)
Physicians ordering medicines will please mark after each one its strength and preparation as: moth. tinct. for mother tincture.
From Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Munde, Charles
Balls composed of camphor, pulv. uva ursi, tinct. ferri mur., mass purg., and pulv. lini. et gum. arab., were administered morning, noon, and night.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
The following lotion is one of the very best to use for teat wound: Tinct. iodine, 2 ounces; tinct. arnica, 2 ounces; glycerine, 2 ounces; comp. tinct. benzoine, 2 ounces.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
Jalap gr. x. syr. rosar. solut. tinct. senn. aa ʒii. aq. menth. v. simpl. ℥iss. m. mane sumend.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
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