tincture
noun
a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
was tincturing
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past progressiveof tincture.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He had filled one glass and was tincturing it with syrup when he caught again that confiding smile of Josie's, full upon him as the beams of a noon-day sun.
From The Fortune Hunter by Louis Joseph Vance
Everything took on a wistfulness in the evening air, which the sunset was tincturing like claret poured into water.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
