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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Tincture \Tinc"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinctured; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Tincturing.]
     1. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to
        impregnate with some extraneous matter.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty
              gay colors.                           --I. Watts.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything
        foreign to; to tinge.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture
              all our soul.                         --Barrow.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Tincture \Tinc"ture\, n. [L. tinctura a dyeing, from tingere,
     tinctum, to tinge, dye: cf. OE. tainture, teinture, F.
     teinture, L. tinctura. See Tinge.]
     1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented
           in engraving by a white surface covered with small
           dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a
           plain white surface. The colors and their
           representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a
           shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or
           horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal
           and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or
           diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called
           purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner.
           The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair,
           counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See
           Illustration in Appendix.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance,
        separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the
        substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal
        substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit
        containing medicinal substances in solution.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: According to the United States Pharmacop[oe]ia, the
           term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and
           spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic
           solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic
           solutions of volatile substances being called spirits.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     Ethereal tincture, a solution of medicinal substance in
        ether.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture
        of orange peel.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a
        tincture of French manners.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              All manners take a tincture from our own. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and
              scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.
                                                    --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Tincture \Tinc"ture\, n. [L. tinctura a dyeing, from tingere,
     tinctum, to tinge, dye: cf. OE. tainture, teinture, F.
     teinture, L. tinctura. See Tinge.]
     1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
  
     2. (Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
  
     Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented
           in engraving by a white surface covered with small
           dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a
           plain white surface. The colors and their
           representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a
           shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or
           horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal
           and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or
           diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called
           purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner.
           The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair,
           counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See
           Illustration in Appendix.
  
     3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance,
        separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the
        substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
  
     4. (Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal
        substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit
        containing medicinal substances in solution.
  
     Note: According to the United States Pharmacop[oe]ia, the
           term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and
           spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic
           solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic
           solutions of volatile substances being called spirits.
  
     Ethereal tincture, a solution of medicinal substance in
        ether.
  
     5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture
        of orange peel.
  
     6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a
        tincture of French manners.
  
              All manners take a tincture from our own. --Pope.
  
              Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and
              scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.
                                                    --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Tincture \Tinc"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinctured; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Tincturing.]
     1. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to
        impregnate with some extraneous matter.
  
              A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty
              gay colors.                           --I. Watts.
  
     2. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything
        foreign to; to tinge.
  
              The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture
              all our soul.                         --Barrow.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  tincture
       n 1: a substances that colors metals
       2: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't
          a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of
          condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, shadow]
       3: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a
          primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of
          pink that she wanted" [syn: shade, tint, tone]
       4: (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an
          alcohol solution
       v 1: fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic
            tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" [syn: impregnate,
             infuse, instill]
       2: stain or tint with a color; "The leaves were tinctured with
          a bright red"

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tincture
     Αγγλικά n.
     το βάμμα

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tincture
     n.
     1 (non-gloss definition Senses relating to colour#Noun colour, and to
  dip#Verb dipping something into a liquid#Noun liquid.)
     2 # (lb en obsolete) A pigment#Noun or other substance#Noun that
  colour#Verb or dye#Verb; specifically, a pigment use#Verb as a
  cosmetic#Noun. (century 15 19)
     3 # (lb en by extension)
     4 ## A colour or tint#Noun, especially if produce#Verb by a pigment
  or something which stain#Verb; a tinge#Noun.
     5 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=iv page=12 passage='Tis not a Sett of
  Features, or Complexion, / The '''Tincture''' of a Skin, that I admire.
  / Beauty ſoon grovvs familiar to the Lover, / Fades in his Eye, and
  palls upon the Senſe.)
     6 ## (lb en figuratively) A slight#Adjective addition of a thing to
  something else; a shade#Noun, a touch#Noun, a trace#Noun.
     7 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Eleuenth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=184|passage=[A]fter the firſt comming of
  ''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengist%20and%20Horsa'' they had liued
  here C.L. yeers by the cõmon account vvithout '''tincture''' of true
  religion: (...)}
     8 ##* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=38 date=13 April 1711
  page=263 passage=Men are oppressed with regard to their way of speaking
  and acting, instead of having their thought bent upon what they should
  do or say; and by that means bury a capacity for great things, by their
  fear of failing in indifferent things. This, perhaps, cannot be called
  affectation; but it has some '''tincture''' of it, at least so far, as
  that their fear of erring in a thing of no consequence, argues they
  would be too much pleased in performing it.)
     9 ##* {RQ:Carlyle Friedrich|volume=I|chapter=Father’s
  Mother|page=43|passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Augustus,%20Duke%20of%20York%20and%20Albany
  has some '''tincture''' of soldiership at this time (Marlborough Wars,
  and the like), as all his kindred had; (...)}
     10 ##*
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith" rel="nofollow">{quote-book|en|author=Aristotle|authorlink=Aristotle|chapter=VI|translator=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith
  and W. D.
  Ross|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics%20(Aristotle)|series=The
  Works of Aristotle Translated into
  English|seriesvolume=VIII|location=Oxford,
  Oxfordshire|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20University%20Press|year=1908|lines=30–34|section=book
  I ((lang grc Α)), Bekker number 987(sup:
  b)|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/worksaristotle08arisgoog/page/n37/mode/1up|oclc=929002484|passage=His
  [(w: Plato)'s] divergence from the Pythagoreans in
  making the One and the Numbers separate from things, and his
  introduction of the Forms, were due to his inquiries in the region of
  definitory formulae (for the earlier thinkers had no '''tincture''' of
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith+dialectic),+(...)" rel="nofollow">dialectic), (...)}
     11 ## (lb en heraldry) A hue#Noun or pattern#Noun used in the
  depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur#Noun, or metal#Noun.
     12 # (lb en obsolete)
     13 ## The act#Noun of colouring#Noun or dyeing#Noun.
     14 ##* (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World tome=2 book=XXXVII
  chapter=Sundry Kinds of Iaspers page=620 passage=This ſtone [“cyanos” or
  chrysoprase] is very apt to bee counterfeited, and eſpecially by
  '''tincture''': the invention vvhereof is aſcribed to a king of Ægypt,
  vvho vvas highly honoured for beeing the firſt that gave a colour to
  it.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### A slight physical#Adjective quality#Noun other than colour
  (especially taste#Noun), or an abstract#Adjective quality, add#Verb to
  something; a tinge.
     17 ###: (ux en a '''tincture''' of orange peel)
     18 ###* (RQ:Camden Holland Britain chapter=Sussex page=306
  passage=And yet the iron here vvrought, is not in every place of like
  goodneſſe, but generally more brittle than is the Spaniſh iron, vvhether
  it bee by the nature, or '''tincture''' and temper thereof.)
     19 ###* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=144 date=15 August 1711
  page=255 passage=Her look, her voice, her gesture, and whole behaviour
  is truly feminine. A goodness mixed with fear gives a '''tincture''' to
  all her behaviour.)
     20 ###* (RQ:Spectator issue=160 date=3 September 1711 page=329
  passage=The greatest genius which runs through the Arts and Sciences,
  takes a kind of '''tincture''' from them, and falls unavoidably into
  imitation.)
     21 ###* (RQ:Pope Works volume=II title=Epistle I. To Sir
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Temple,%201st%20Viscount%20Cobham.
  page=48 passage=All Manners take a '''tincture''' from our own, / Or
  come diſcolour'd thro' our Paſſions ſhovvn, / Or Fancy's beam inlarges,
  multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thouſand dyes.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Thomson
  Works|year=1762|volume=I|title=Life|page=i|passage=It is commonly ſaid,
  that the life of a good writer is beſt read in his works; which can
  ſcarce fail to receive a peculiar '''tincture''' from his temper,
  manners, and habits: (...)}
     23 ###* (RQ:Burke Works volume=X title=English History section=book
  II, chapter I (The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons, and Their
  Conversion to Christianity) page=255 passage=[I]n England the Saxon
  language received little or no '''tincture''' from the Welsh; and it
  seems, even among the lowest people, to have continued a dialect of pure
  Teutonick to the time, in which it was itself blended with the Norman.)
     24 ###* (RQ:Macaulay History of England volume=I chapter=I page=35
  passage=Regular army there was none. Every man had a slight
  '''tincture''' of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight
  '''tincture'''.)
     25 ### A small#Adjective flaw#Noun; a blemish#Noun, a stain#Noun.
     26 ###* {quote-book|en|author=John Cleveland|authorlink=John
  Cleveland|chapter=To the
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Rich,%201st%20Earl%20of%20Holland,
  then Chancellor of the University of Cambridge|editors=J[ohn] L[ake] and
  S[amuel] D[rake]|title=The Works of John Cleveland, Containing His
  Poems, Orations, Epistles,(nb...: Collected into One Volume, with the
  Life of the Author.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by) R.
  Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave,(nb...: at the Bear and Star, over against
  the little North Door in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.)|month=(date
  written)|year=a. 1659<!--year after author's
  death-->|year_published=1687|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL0JYdTQLVUC&pg=PA114|oclc=30835082|passage=To
  offend againſt ſo gracious a Patron, vvould add a '''Tincture''' to our
  Diſobedience; yet ſuch is the Iniquity of our Condition, that vve are
  forced to defer our Gratitude.}
     27 ## (lb en Christianity) (synonym of en baptism)
     28 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Fourth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=73|passage=''(w: Rollo)'' ſonne of a
  ''Daniſh'' Potentate, (...) made tranſmigration into ''France'', and
  there, after ſome martiall diſcords, honored in holy '''tincture''' of
  Chriſtianity vvith the name of ''Robert'', (...)}
     29 (non-gloss definition scientific Scientific and alchemical
  senses.)
     30 # (lb en pharmacy) A medicine#Noun consisting of one#Pronoun or
  more substances dissolve#Verb in ethanol or some other solvent#Noun.
     31 # (lb en by extension humorous) A (small) alcoholic#Adjective
  drink#Noun.
     32 # (lb en obsolete except historical)
     33 ## (lb en alchemy)
     34 ### An immaterial substance or spiritual#Adjective principle which
  was think#Verb capable of being instilled into physical things; also,
  the essence or spirit#Noun of something.
     35 ###* {quote-book|en|author=T[homas] M[offett]|title=The
  Silkewormes, and Their Flies:(nb...: Liuely Described in Verse, by T. M.
  a Countrie Farmar, and an Apprentice in Physicke. For the Great Benefit
  and Enriching of England.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed at
  London by) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Simmes] for (w:
  Nicholas Ling),(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop at the West Ende
  of
  Paules.)|year=1599|pages=67–68|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008513125/page/n79/mode/1up|oclc=222334769|passage=For
  vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al
  humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A
  deathleſſe '''tincture''', ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour
  ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, (...)}
     36 ### A material#Adjective essence thought to be capable of
  extraction from a substance.
     37 ###* {RQ:Grew Vegetables|pages=52–53|pageref=52|passage=[T]he
  pureſt part [of the sap], as moſt apt and ready, recedes, vvith its due
  '''Tinctures''', from the ſaid ''Cortical Body'', to the ''Lignous''.
  VVhich ''Lignous Body'' likevviſe ſuper-inducing its ovvn proper
  '''Tinctures''' into the ſaid ''Sap''; (...)}
     38 ###* {RQ:Hale Mankind|chapter=Concerning Vegetables, and
  Especially ''Insecta Animalia'', whether Any of Them are ''Sponte
  Orta'', or Arise Not rather ''Ex Præexistente
  Semine''|page=267|passage=And I do perſvvade my ſelf, that the common
  Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the
  common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal '''Tincture''' of the Herb,
  vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked
  Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: (...)}
     39 ## (lb en chemistry) The part#Noun of a substance thought to be
  essential, fine#Adjective, and/or more volatile#Adjective, which could
  be extract#Verb in a solution; also, the process#Noun of obtaining this.
     40 ##* {RQ:Jonson Alchemist|scene=i|page=67|passage=[C]ome forth, /
  And taſt the ayre of ''Palaces'', eate, drinke / The toyles of
  ''Empricks'', and their boaſted practiſe: / '''Tincture''' of Pearle, an
  Corall, Gold, and Amber; (...)}
     41 ##* (RQ:Jonson Fortunate Isles sig=&#91;A4&#93; verso=1
  page=11 passage=VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the
  inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of
  '''tincture''', high roſe '''tincture'''.)
     42 ##* (RQ:Mortimer Husbandry chapter=Some Further Observations
  Relating to Malt page=279 passage='Tis not unlikely that Grain may
  afford its '''Tincture''', and that excellent Beer and Ale may be made
  thereof vvithout malting, but I ſhall leave theſe things to experience.)
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive)
     2 # (lb en chiefly in past participle form) To colour#Verb or
  stain#Verb (something) with, or as if with, a dye#Noun or pigment#Noun.
     3 # (lb en figuratively chiefly in past participle form) ''Followed
  by'' '''with#Preposition''': to add#Verb to or impregnate (something)
  with (a slight#Adjective amount#Noun of) an abstract#Adjective or (lb en
  obsolete) physical#Adjective quality#Noun; to imbue, to taint#Verb, to
  tinge#Verb.
     4 # (lb en pharmacy) To dissolve#Verb (a substance#Noun) in ethanol
  or some other solvent#Noun to produce#Verb a medicinal#Adjective
  tincture#Noun.
     5 (lb en intransitive rare) To have a taint#Noun or tinge#Noun of
  some quality.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  tincture
     n.
     1 (non-gloss definition Senses relating to colour#Noun colour, and to
  dip#Verb dipping something into a liquid#Noun liquid.)
     2 # (lb en obsolete) A pigment#Noun or other substance#Noun that
  colour#Verb or dye#Verb; specifically, a pigment use#Verb as a
  cosmetic#Noun. (century 15 19)
     3 # (lb en by extension)
     4 ## A colour or tint#Noun, especially if produce#Verb by a pigment
  or something which stain#Verb; a tinge#Noun.
     5 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=iv page=12 passage='Tis not a Sett of
  Features, or Complexion, / The '''Tincture''' of a Skin, that I admire.
  / Beauty ſoon grovvs familiar to the Lover, / Fades in his Eye, and
  palls upon the Senſe.)
     6 ## (lb en figuratively) A slight#Adjective addition of a thing to
  something else; a shade#Noun, a touch#Noun, a trace#Noun.
     7 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Eleuenth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=184|passage=[A]fter the firſt comming of
  ''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengist%20and%20Horsa'' they had liued
  here C.L. yeers by the cõmon account vvithout '''tincture''' of true
  religion: (...)}
     8 ##* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=38 date=13 April 1711
  page=263 passage=Men are oppressed with regard to their way of speaking
  and acting, instead of having their thought bent upon what they should
  do or say; and by that means bury a capacity for great things, by their
  fear of failing in indifferent things. This, perhaps, cannot be called
  affectation; but it has some '''tincture''' of it, at least so far, as
  that their fear of erring in a thing of no consequence, argues they
  would be too much pleased in performing it.)
     9 ##* {RQ:Carlyle Friedrich|volume=I|chapter=Father’s
  Mother|page=43|passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Augustus,%20Duke%20of%20York%20and%20Albany
  has some '''tincture''' of soldiership at this time (Marlborough Wars,
  and the like), as all his kindred had; (...)}
     10 ##*
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith" rel="nofollow">{quote-book|en|author=Aristotle|authorlink=Aristotle|chapter=VI|translator=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith
  and W. D.
  Ross|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics%20(Aristotle)|series=The
  Works of Aristotle Translated into
  English|seriesvolume=VIII|location=Oxford,
  Oxfordshire|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20University%20Press|year=1908|lines=30–34|section=book
  I ((lang grc Α)), Bekker number 987(sup:
  b)|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/worksaristotle08arisgoog/page/n37/mode/1up|oclc=929002484|passage=His
  &#91;(w: Plato)'s&#93; divergence from the Pythagoreans in
  making the One and the Numbers separate from things, and his
  introduction of the Forms, were due to his inquiries in the region of
  definitory formulae (for the earlier thinkers had no '''tincture''' of
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith+dialectic),+(...)" rel="nofollow">dialectic), (...)}
     11 ## (lb en heraldry) A hue#Noun or pattern#Noun used in the
  depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur#Noun, or metal#Noun.
     12 # (lb en obsolete)
     13 ## The act#Noun of colouring#Noun or dyeing#Noun.
     14 ##* (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World tome=2 book=XXXVII
  chapter=Sundry Kinds of Iaspers page=620 passage=This ſtone [“cyanos” or
  chrysoprase] is very apt to bee counterfeited, and eſpecially by
  '''tincture''': the invention vvhereof is aſcribed to a king of Ægypt,
  vvho vvas highly honoured for beeing the firſt that gave a colour to
  it.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### A slight physical#Adjective quality#Noun other than colour
  (especially taste#Noun), or an abstract#Adjective quality, add#Verb to
  something; a tinge.
     17 ###: (ux en a '''tincture''' of orange peel)
     18 ###* (RQ:Camden Holland Britain chapter=Sussex page=306
  passage=And yet the iron here vvrought, is not in every place of like
  goodneſſe, but generally more brittle than is the Spaniſh iron, vvhether
  it bee by the nature, or '''tincture''' and temper thereof.)
     19 ###* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=144 date=15 August 1711
  page=255 passage=Her look, her voice, her gesture, and whole behaviour
  is truly feminine. A goodness mixed with fear gives a '''tincture''' to
  all her behaviour.)
     20 ###* (RQ:Spectator issue=160 date=3 September 1711 page=329
  passage=The greatest genius which runs through the Arts and Sciences,
  takes a kind of '''tincture''' from them, and falls unavoidably into
  imitation.)
     21 ###* (RQ:Pope Works volume=II title=Epistle I. To Sir
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Temple,%201st%20Viscount%20Cobham.
  page=48 passage=All Manners take a '''tincture''' from our own, / Or
  come diſcolour'd thro' our Paſſions ſhovvn, / Or Fancy's beam inlarges,
  multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thouſand dyes.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Thomson
  Works|year=1762|volume=I|title=Life|page=i|passage=It is commonly ſaid,
  that the life of a good writer is beſt read in his works; which can
  ſcarce fail to receive a peculiar '''tincture''' from his temper,
  manners, and habits: (...)}
     23 ###* (RQ:Burke Works volume=X title=English History section=book
  II, chapter I (The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons, and Their
  Conversion to Christianity) page=255 passage=[I]n England the Saxon
  language received little or no '''tincture''' from the Welsh; and it
  seems, even among the lowest people, to have continued a dialect of pure
  Teutonick to the time, in which it was itself blended with the Norman.)
     24 ###* (RQ:Macaulay History of England volume=I chapter=I page=35
  passage=Regular army there was none. Every man had a slight
  '''tincture''' of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight
  '''tincture'''.)
     25 ### A small#Adjective flaw#Noun; a blemish#Noun, a stain#Noun.
     26 ###* {quote-book|en|author=John Cleveland|authorlink=John
  Cleveland|chapter=To the
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Rich,%201st%20Earl%20of%20Holland,
  then Chancellor of the University of Cambridge|editors=J[ohn] L[ake] and
  S[amuel] D[rake]|title=The Works of John Cleveland, Containing His
  Poems, Orations, Epistles,(nb...: Collected into One Volume, with the
  Life of the Author.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by) R.
  Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave,(nb...: at the Bear and Star, over against
  the little North Door in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.)|month=(date
  written)|year=a. 1659<!--year after author's
  death-->|year_published=1687|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL0JYdTQLVUC&pg=PA114|oclc=30835082|passage=To
  offend againſt ſo gracious a Patron, vvould add a '''Tincture''' to our
  Diſobedience; yet ſuch is the Iniquity of our Condition, that vve are
  forced to defer our Gratitude.}
     27 ## (lb en Christianity) (synonym of en baptism)
     28 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Fourth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=73|passage=''(w: Rollo)'' ſonne of a
  ''Daniſh'' Potentate, (...) made tranſmigration into ''France'', and
  there, after ſome martiall diſcords, honored in holy '''tincture''' of
  Chriſtianity vvith the name of ''Robert'', (...)}
     29 (non-gloss definition scientific Scientific and alchemical
  senses.)
     30 # (lb en pharmacy) A medicine#Noun consisting of one#Pronoun or
  more substances dissolve#Verb in ethanol or some other solvent#Noun.
     31 # (lb en by extension humorous) A (small) alcoholic#Adjective
  drink#Noun.
     32 # (lb en obsolete except historical)
     33 ## (lb en alchemy)
     34 ### An immaterial substance or spiritual#Adjective principle which
  was think#Verb capable of being instilled into physical things; also,
  the essence or spirit#Noun of something.
     35 ###* {quote-book|en|author=T[homas] M[offett]|title=The
  Silkewormes, and Their Flies:(nb...: Liuely Described in Verse, by T. M.
  a Countrie Farmar, and an Apprentice in Physicke. For the Great Benefit
  and Enriching of England.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed at
  London by) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Simmes] for (w:
  Nicholas Ling),(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop at the West Ende
  of
  Paules.)|year=1599|pages=67–68|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008513125/page/n79/mode/1up|oclc=222334769|passage=For
  vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al
  humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A
  deathleſſe '''tincture''', ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour
  ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, (...)}
     36 ### A material#Adjective essence thought to be capable of
  extraction from a substance.
     37 ###* {RQ:Grew Vegetables|pages=52–53|pageref=52|passage=[T]he
  pureſt part [of the sap], as moſt apt and ready, recedes, vvith its due
  '''Tinctures''', from the ſaid ''Cortical Body'', to the ''Lignous''.
  VVhich ''Lignous Body'' likevviſe ſuper-inducing its ovvn proper
  '''Tinctures''' into the ſaid ''Sap''; (...)}
     38 ###* {RQ:Hale Mankind|chapter=Concerning Vegetables, and
  Especially ''Insecta Animalia'', whether Any of Them are ''Sponte
  Orta'', or Arise Not rather ''Ex Præexistente
  Semine''|page=267|passage=And I do perſvvade my ſelf, that the common
  Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the
  common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal '''Tincture''' of the Herb,
  vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked
  Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: (...)}
     39 ## (lb en chemistry) The part#Noun of a substance thought to be
  essential, fine#Adjective, and/or more volatile#Adjective, which could
  be extract#Verb in a solution; also, the process#Noun of obtaining this.
     40 ##* {RQ:Jonson Alchemist|scene=i|page=67|passage=[C]ome forth, /
  And taſt the ayre of ''Palaces'', eate, drinke / The toyles of
  ''Empricks'', and their boaſted practiſe: / '''Tincture''' of Pearle, an
  Corall, Gold, and Amber; (...)}
     41 ##* (RQ:Jonson Fortunate Isles sig=&#91;A4&#93; verso=1
  page=11 passage=VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the
  inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of
  '''tincture''', high roſe '''tincture'''.)
     42 ##* (RQ:Mortimer Husbandry chapter=Some Further Observations
  Relating to Malt page=279 passage='Tis not unlikely that Grain may
  afford its '''Tincture''', and that excellent Beer and Ale may be made
  thereof vvithout malting, but I ſhall leave theſe things to experience.)
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive)
     2 # (lb en chiefly in past participle form) To colour#Verb or
  stain#Verb (something) with, or as if with, a dye#Noun or pigment#Noun.
     3 # (lb en figuratively chiefly in past participle form) ''Followed
  by'' '''with#Preposition''': to add#Verb to or impregnate (something)
  with (a slight#Adjective amount#Noun of) an abstract#Adjective or (lb en
  obsolete) physical#Adjective quality#Noun; to imbue, to taint#Verb, to
  tinge#Verb.
     4 # (lb en pharmacy) To dissolve#Verb (a substance#Noun) in ethanol
  or some other solvent#Noun to produce#Verb a medicinal#Adjective
  tincture#Noun.
     5 (lb en intransitive rare) To have a taint#Noun or tinge#Noun of
  some quality.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  tincture
     n.
     1 (non-gloss definition Senses relating to colour#Noun colour, and to
  dip#Verb dipping something into a liquid#Noun liquid.)
     2 # (lb en obsolete) A pigment#Noun or other substance#Noun that
  colour#Verb or dye#Verb; specifically, a pigment use#Verb as a
  cosmetic#Noun. (century 15 19)
     3 # (lb en by extension)
     4 ## A colour or tint#Noun, especially if produce#Verb by a pigment
  or something which stain#Verb; a tinge#Noun.
     5 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=iv page=12 passage='Tis not a Sett of
  Features, or Complexion, / The '''Tincture''' of a Skin, that I admire.
  / Beauty ſoon grovvs familiar to the Lover, / Fades in his Eye, and
  palls upon the Senſe.)
     6 ## (lb en figuratively) A slight#Adjective addition of a thing to
  something else; a shade#Noun, a touch#Noun, a trace#Noun.
     7 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Eleuenth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=184|passage=[A]fter the firſt comming of
  ''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengist%20and%20Horsa'' they had liued
  here C.L. yeers by the cõmon account vvithout '''tincture''' of true
  religion: (...)}
     8 ##* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=38 date=13 April 1711
  page=263 passage=Men are oppressed with regard to their way of speaking
  and acting, instead of having their thought bent upon what they should
  do or say; and by that means bury a capacity for great things, by their
  fear of failing in indifferent things. This, perhaps, cannot be called
  affectation; but it has some '''tincture''' of it, at least so far, as
  that their fear of erring in a thing of no consequence, argues they
  would be too much pleased in performing it.)
     9 ##* {RQ:Carlyle Friedrich|volume=I|chapter=Father’s
  Mother|page=43|passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Augustus,%20Duke%20of%20York%20and%20Albany
  has some '''tincture''' of soldiership at this time (Marlborough Wars,
  and the like), as all his kindred had; (...)}
     10 ##*
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith" rel="nofollow">{quote-book|en|author=Aristotle|authorlink=Aristotle|chapter=VI|translator=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith
  and W. D.
  Ross|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics%20(Aristotle)|series=The
  Works of Aristotle Translated into
  English|seriesvolume=VIII|location=Oxford,
  Oxfordshire|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20University%20Press|year=1908|lines=30–34|section=book
  I ((lang grc Α)), Bekker number 987(sup:
  b)|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/worksaristotle08arisgoog/page/n37/mode/1up|oclc=929002484|passage=His
  &#91;(w: Plato)'s&#93; divergence from the Pythagoreans in
  making the One and the Numbers separate from things, and his
  introduction of the Forms, were due to his inquiries in the region of
  definitory formulae (for the earlier thinkers had no '''tincture''' of
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith+dialectic),+(...)" rel="nofollow">dialectic), (...)}
     11 ## (lb en heraldry) A hue#Noun or pattern#Noun used in the
  depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur#Noun, or metal#Noun.
     12 # (lb en obsolete)
     13 ## The act#Noun of colouring#Noun or dyeing#Noun.
     14 ##* (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World tome=2 book=XXXVII
  chapter=Sundry Kinds of Iaspers page=620 passage=This ſtone [“cyanos” or
  chrysoprase] is very apt to bee counterfeited, and eſpecially by
  '''tincture''': the invention vvhereof is aſcribed to a king of Ægypt,
  vvho vvas highly honoured for beeing the firſt that gave a colour to
  it.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### A slight physical#Adjective quality#Noun other than colour
  (especially taste#Noun), or an abstract#Adjective quality, add#Verb to
  something; a tinge.
     17 ###: (ux en a '''tincture''' of orange peel)
     18 ###* (RQ:Camden Holland Britain chapter=Sussex page=306
  passage=And yet the iron here vvrought, is not in every place of like
  goodneſſe, but generally more brittle than is the Spaniſh iron, vvhether
  it bee by the nature, or '''tincture''' and temper thereof.)
     19 ###* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=144 date=15 August 1711
  page=255 passage=Her look, her voice, her gesture, and whole behaviour
  is truly feminine. A goodness mixed with fear gives a '''tincture''' to
  all her behaviour.)
     20 ###* (RQ:Spectator issue=160 date=3 September 1711 page=329
  passage=The greatest genius which runs through the Arts and Sciences,
  takes a kind of '''tincture''' from them, and falls unavoidably into
  imitation.)
     21 ###* (RQ:Pope Works volume=II title=Epistle I. To Sir
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Temple,%201st%20Viscount%20Cobham.
  page=48 passage=All Manners take a '''tincture''' from our own, / Or
  come diſcolour'd thro' our Paſſions ſhovvn, / Or Fancy's beam inlarges,
  multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thouſand dyes.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Thomson
  Works|year=1762|volume=I|title=Life|page=i|passage=It is commonly ſaid,
  that the life of a good writer is beſt read in his works; which can
  ſcarce fail to receive a peculiar '''tincture''' from his temper,
  manners, and habits: (...)}
     23 ###* (RQ:Burke Works volume=X title=English History section=book
  II, chapter I (The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons, and Their
  Conversion to Christianity) page=255 passage=[I]n England the Saxon
  language received little or no '''tincture''' from the Welsh; and it
  seems, even among the lowest people, to have continued a dialect of pure
  Teutonick to the time, in which it was itself blended with the Norman.)
     24 ###* (RQ:Macaulay History of England volume=I chapter=I page=35
  passage=Regular army there was none. Every man had a slight
  '''tincture''' of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight
  '''tincture'''.)
     25 ### A small#Adjective flaw#Noun; a blemish#Noun, a stain#Noun.
     26 ###* {quote-book|en|author=John Cleveland|authorlink=John
  Cleveland|chapter=To the
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Rich,%201st%20Earl%20of%20Holland,
  then Chancellor of the University of Cambridge|editors=J[ohn] L[ake] and
  S[amuel] D[rake]|title=The Works of John Cleveland, Containing His
  Poems, Orations, Epistles,(nb...: Collected into One Volume, with the
  Life of the Author.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by) R.
  Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave,(nb...: at the Bear and Star, over against
  the little North Door in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.)|month=(date
  written)|year=a. 1659<!--year after author's
  death-->|year_published=1687|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL0JYdTQLVUC&pg=PA114|oclc=30835082|passage=To
  offend againſt ſo gracious a Patron, vvould add a '''Tincture''' to our
  Diſobedience; yet ſuch is the Iniquity of our Condition, that vve are
  forced to defer our Gratitude.}
     27 ## (lb en Christianity) (synonym of en baptism)
     28 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Fourth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=73|passage=''(w: Rollo)'' ſonne of a
  ''Daniſh'' Potentate, (...) made tranſmigration into ''France'', and
  there, after ſome martiall diſcords, honored in holy '''tincture''' of
  Chriſtianity vvith the name of ''Robert'', (...)}
     29 (non-gloss definition scientific Scientific and alchemical
  senses.)
     30 # (lb en pharmacy) A medicine#Noun consisting of one#Pronoun or
  more substances dissolve#Verb in ethanol or some other solvent#Noun.
     31 # (lb en by extension humorous) A (small) alcoholic#Adjective
  drink#Noun.
     32 # (lb en obsolete except historical)
     33 ## (lb en alchemy)
     34 ### An immaterial substance or spiritual#Adjective principle which
  was think#Verb capable of being instilled into physical things; also,
  the essence or spirit#Noun of something.
     35 ###* {quote-book|en|author=T[homas] M[offett]|title=The
  Silkewormes, and Their Flies:(nb...: Liuely Described in Verse, by T. M.
  a Countrie Farmar, and an Apprentice in Physicke. For the Great Benefit
  and Enriching of England.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed at
  London by) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Simmes] for (w:
  Nicholas Ling),(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop at the West Ende
  of
  Paules.)|year=1599|pages=67–68|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008513125/page/n79/mode/1up|oclc=222334769|passage=For
  vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al
  humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A
  deathleſſe '''tincture''', ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour
  ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, (...)}
     36 ### A material#Adjective essence thought to be capable of
  extraction from a substance.
     37 ###* {RQ:Grew Vegetables|pages=52–53|pageref=52|passage=[T]he
  pureſt part [of the sap], as moſt apt and ready, recedes, vvith its due
  '''Tinctures''', from the ſaid ''Cortical Body'', to the ''Lignous''.
  VVhich ''Lignous Body'' likevviſe ſuper-inducing its ovvn proper
  '''Tinctures''' into the ſaid ''Sap''; (...)}
     38 ###* {RQ:Hale Mankind|chapter=Concerning Vegetables, and
  Especially ''Insecta Animalia'', whether Any of Them are ''Sponte
  Orta'', or Arise Not rather ''Ex Præexistente
  Semine''|page=267|passage=And I do perſvvade my ſelf, that the common
  Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the
  common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal '''Tincture''' of the Herb,
  vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked
  Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: (...)}
     39 ## (lb en chemistry) The part#Noun of a substance thought to be
  essential, fine#Adjective, and/or more volatile#Adjective, which could
  be extract#Verb in a solution; also, the process#Noun of obtaining this.
     40 ##* {RQ:Jonson Alchemist|scene=i|page=67|passage=[C]ome forth, /
  And taſt the ayre of ''Palaces'', eate, drinke / The toyles of
  ''Empricks'', and their boaſted practiſe: / '''Tincture''' of Pearle, an
  Corall, Gold, and Amber; (...)}
     41 ##* (RQ:Jonson Fortunate Isles sig=&#91;A4&#93; verso=1
  page=11 passage=VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the
  inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of
  '''tincture''', high roſe '''tincture'''.)
     42 ##* (RQ:Mortimer Husbandry chapter=Some Further Observations
  Relating to Malt page=279 passage='Tis not unlikely that Grain may
  afford its '''Tincture''', and that excellent Beer and Ale may be made
  thereof vvithout malting, but I ſhall leave theſe things to experience.)
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive)
     2 # (lb en chiefly in past participle form) To colour#Verb or
  stain#Verb (something) with, or as if with, a dye#Noun or pigment#Noun.
     3 # (lb en figuratively chiefly in past participle form) ''Followed
  by'' '''with#Preposition''': to add#Verb to or impregnate (something)
  with (a slight#Adjective amount#Noun of) an abstract#Adjective or (lb en
  obsolete) physical#Adjective quality#Noun; to imbue, to taint#Verb, to
  tinge#Verb.
     4 # (lb en pharmacy) To dissolve#Verb (a substance#Noun) in ethanol
  or some other solvent#Noun to produce#Verb a medicinal#Adjective
  tincture#Noun.
     5 (lb en intransitive rare) To have a taint#Noun or tinge#Noun of
  some quality.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  tincture
     n.
     1 (non-gloss definition Senses relating to colour#Noun colour, and to
  dip#Verb dipping something into a liquid#Noun liquid.)
     2 # (lb en obsolete) A pigment#Noun or other substance#Noun that
  colour#Verb or dye#Verb; specifically, a pigment use#Verb as a
  cosmetic#Noun. (century 15 19)
     3 # (lb en by extension)
     4 ## A colour or tint#Noun, especially if produce#Verb by a pigment
  or something which stain#Verb; a tinge#Noun.
     5 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=iv page=12 passage='Tis not a Sett of
  Features, or Complexion, / The '''Tincture''' of a Skin, that I admire.
  / Beauty ſoon grovvs familiar to the Lover, / Fades in his Eye, and
  palls upon the Senſe.)
     6 ## (lb en figuratively) A slight#Adjective addition of a thing to
  something else; a shade#Noun, a touch#Noun, a trace#Noun.
     7 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Eleuenth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=184|passage=[A]fter the firſt comming of
  ''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengist%20and%20Horsa'' they had liued
  here C.L. yeers by the cõmon account vvithout '''tincture''' of true
  religion: (...)}
     8 ##* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=38 date=13 April 1711
  page=263 passage=Men are oppressed with regard to their way of speaking
  and acting, instead of having their thought bent upon what they should
  do or say; and by that means bury a capacity for great things, by their
  fear of failing in indifferent things. This, perhaps, cannot be called
  affectation; but it has some '''tincture''' of it, at least so far, as
  that their fear of erring in a thing of no consequence, argues they
  would be too much pleased in performing it.)
     9 ##* {RQ:Carlyle Friedrich|volume=I|chapter=Father’s
  Mother|page=43|passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Augustus,%20Duke%20of%20York%20and%20Albany
  has some '''tincture''' of soldiership at this time (Marlborough Wars,
  and the like), as all his kindred had; (...)}
     10 ##*
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith" rel="nofollow">{quote-book|en|author=Aristotle|authorlink=Aristotle|chapter=VI|translator=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith
  and W. D.
  Ross|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics%20(Aristotle)|series=The
  Works of Aristotle Translated into
  English|seriesvolume=VIII|location=Oxford,
  Oxfordshire|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20University%20Press|year=1908|lines=30–34|section=book
  I ((lang grc Α)), Bekker number 987(sup:
  b)|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/worksaristotle08arisgoog/page/n37/mode/1up|oclc=929002484|passage=His
  &#91;(w: Plato)'s&#93; divergence from the Pythagoreans in
  making the One and the Numbers separate from things, and his
  introduction of the Forms, were due to his inquiries in the region of
  definitory formulae (for the earlier thinkers had no '''tincture''' of
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20D.%20Ross|editors=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alexander%20Smith+dialectic),+(...)" rel="nofollow">dialectic), (...)}
     11 ## (lb en heraldry) A hue#Noun or pattern#Noun used in the
  depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur#Noun, or metal#Noun.
     12 # (lb en obsolete)
     13 ## The act#Noun of colouring#Noun or dyeing#Noun.
     14 ##* (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World tome=2 book=XXXVII
  chapter=Sundry Kinds of Iaspers page=620 passage=This ſtone [“cyanos” or
  chrysoprase] is very apt to bee counterfeited, and eſpecially by
  '''tincture''': the invention vvhereof is aſcribed to a king of Ægypt,
  vvho vvas highly honoured for beeing the firſt that gave a colour to
  it.)
     15 ## (lb en figuratively)
     16 ### A slight physical#Adjective quality#Noun other than colour
  (especially taste#Noun), or an abstract#Adjective quality, add#Verb to
  something; a tinge.
     17 ###: (ux en a '''tincture''' of orange peel)
     18 ###* (RQ:Camden Holland Britain chapter=Sussex page=306
  passage=And yet the iron here vvrought, is not in every place of like
  goodneſſe, but generally more brittle than is the Spaniſh iron, vvhether
  it bee by the nature, or '''tincture''' and temper thereof.)
     19 ###* (RQ:Spectator author=Steele issue=144 date=15 August 1711
  page=255 passage=Her look, her voice, her gesture, and whole behaviour
  is truly feminine. A goodness mixed with fear gives a '''tincture''' to
  all her behaviour.)
     20 ###* (RQ:Spectator issue=160 date=3 September 1711 page=329
  passage=The greatest genius which runs through the Arts and Sciences,
  takes a kind of '''tincture''' from them, and falls unavoidably into
  imitation.)
     21 ###* (RQ:Pope Works volume=II title=Epistle I. To Sir
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Temple,%201st%20Viscount%20Cobham.
  page=48 passage=All Manners take a '''tincture''' from our own, / Or
  come diſcolour'd thro' our Paſſions ſhovvn, / Or Fancy's beam inlarges,
  multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thouſand dyes.)
     22 ###* {RQ:Thomson
  Works|year=1762|volume=I|title=Life|page=i|passage=It is commonly ſaid,
  that the life of a good writer is beſt read in his works; which can
  ſcarce fail to receive a peculiar '''tincture''' from his temper,
  manners, and habits: (...)}
     23 ###* (RQ:Burke Works volume=X title=English History section=book
  II, chapter I (The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons, and Their
  Conversion to Christianity) page=255 passage=[I]n England the Saxon
  language received little or no '''tincture''' from the Welsh; and it
  seems, even among the lowest people, to have continued a dialect of pure
  Teutonick to the time, in which it was itself blended with the Norman.)
     24 ###* (RQ:Macaulay History of England volume=I chapter=I page=35
  passage=Regular army there was none. Every man had a slight
  '''tincture''' of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight
  '''tincture'''.)
     25 ### A small#Adjective flaw#Noun; a blemish#Noun, a stain#Noun.
     26 ###* {quote-book|en|author=John Cleveland|authorlink=John
  Cleveland|chapter=To the
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Rich,%201st%20Earl%20of%20Holland,
  then Chancellor of the University of Cambridge|editors=J[ohn] L[ake] and
  S[amuel] D[rake]|title=The Works of John Cleveland, Containing His
  Poems, Orations, Epistles,(nb...: Collected into One Volume, with the
  Life of the Author.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed by) R.
  Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave,(nb...: at the Bear and Star, over against
  the little North Door in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.)|month=(date
  written)|year=a. 1659<!--year after author's
  death-->|year_published=1687|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL0JYdTQLVUC&pg=PA114|oclc=30835082|passage=To
  offend againſt ſo gracious a Patron, vvould add a '''Tincture''' to our
  Diſobedience; yet ſuch is the Iniquity of our Condition, that vve are
  forced to defer our Gratitude.}
     27 ## (lb en Christianity) (synonym of en baptism)
     28 ##* {RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion|chapter=The Fourth
  Song|part=Illustrations|page=73|passage=''(w: Rollo)'' ſonne of a
  ''Daniſh'' Potentate, (...) made tranſmigration into ''France'', and
  there, after ſome martiall diſcords, honored in holy '''tincture''' of
  Chriſtianity vvith the name of ''Robert'', (...)}
     29 (non-gloss definition scientific Scientific and alchemical
  senses.)
     30 # (lb en pharmacy) A medicine#Noun consisting of one#Pronoun or
  more substances dissolve#Verb in ethanol or some other solvent#Noun.
     31 # (lb en by extension humorous) A (small) alcoholic#Adjective
  drink#Noun.
     32 # (lb en obsolete except historical)
     33 ## (lb en alchemy)
     34 ### An immaterial substance or spiritual#Adjective principle which
  was think#Verb capable of being instilled into physical things; also,
  the essence or spirit#Noun of something.
     35 ###* {quote-book|en|author=T[homas] M[offett]|title=The
  Silkewormes, and Their Flies:(nb...: Liuely Described in Verse, by T. M.
  a Countrie Farmar, and an Apprentice in Physicke. For the Great Benefit
  and Enriching of England.)|location=London|publisher=(...: Printed at
  London by) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Simmes] for (w:
  Nicholas Ling),(nb...: and are to be sold at his shop at the West Ende
  of
  Paules.)|year=1599|pages=67–68|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008513125/page/n79/mode/1up|oclc=222334769|passage=For
  vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al
  humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A
  deathleſſe '''tincture''', ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour
  ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, (...)}
     36 ### A material#Adjective essence thought to be capable of
  extraction from a substance.
     37 ###* {RQ:Grew Vegetables|pages=52–53|pageref=52|passage=[T]he
  pureſt part [of the sap], as moſt apt and ready, recedes, vvith its due
  '''Tinctures''', from the ſaid ''Cortical Body'', to the ''Lignous''.
  VVhich ''Lignous Body'' likevviſe ſuper-inducing its ovvn proper
  '''Tinctures''' into the ſaid ''Sap''; (...)}
     38 ###* {RQ:Hale Mankind|chapter=Concerning Vegetables, and
  Especially ''Insecta Animalia'', whether Any of Them are ''Sponte
  Orta'', or Arise Not rather ''Ex Præexistente
  Semine''|page=267|passage=And I do perſvvade my ſelf, that the common
  Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the
  common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal '''Tincture''' of the Herb,
  vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked
  Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: (...)}
     39 ## (lb en chemistry) The part#Noun of a substance thought to be
  essential, fine#Adjective, and/or more volatile#Adjective, which could
  be extract#Verb in a solution; also, the process#Noun of obtaining this.
     40 ##* {RQ:Jonson Alchemist|scene=i|page=67|passage=[C]ome forth, /
  And taſt the ayre of ''Palaces'', eate, drinke / The toyles of
  ''Empricks'', and their boaſted practiſe: / '''Tincture''' of Pearle, an
  Corall, Gold, and Amber; (...)}
     41 ##* (RQ:Jonson Fortunate Isles sig=&#91;A4&#93; verso=1
  page=11 passage=VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the
  inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of
  '''tincture''', high roſe '''tincture'''.)
     42 ##* (RQ:Mortimer Husbandry chapter=Some Further Observations
  Relating to Malt page=279 passage='Tis not unlikely that Grain may
  afford its '''Tincture''', and that excellent Beer and Ale may be made
  thereof vvithout malting, but I ſhall leave theſe things to experience.)
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive)
     2 # (lb en chiefly in past participle form) To colour#Verb or
  stain#Verb (something) with, or as if with, a dye#Noun or pigment#Noun.
     3 # (lb en figuratively chiefly in past participle form) ''Followed
  by'' '''with#Preposition''': to add#Verb to or impregnate (something)
  with (a slight#Adjective amount#Noun of) an abstract#Adjective or (lb en
  obsolete) physical#Adjective quality#Noun; to imbue, to taint#Verb, to
  tinge#Verb.
     4 # (lb en pharmacy) To dissolve#Verb (a substance#Noun) in ethanol
  or some other solvent#Noun to produce#Verb a medicinal#Adjective
  tincture#Noun.
     5 (lb en intransitive rare) To have a taint#Noun or tinge#Noun of
  some quality.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  tincture
     Englanti n.
     1 väriaine
     2 (yhteys farmakologia k=en) tinktuura
     3 värisävy
     4 vivahde

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  الصبغة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  1. оттенък
  colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains
  2. тинкту́ра
  medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  обагрям, оцветявам
  to colour or stain (something) with a dye or pigment

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  barvivo

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  obarvit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  tinktura

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  zabarvení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  výtažek

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  zbarvit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  nádech

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  einen Beigeschmack geben 
           Note: von
        "be tinctured with sth."  - einen Beigeschmack von etw. haben
           Note: with

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  Tinktur 
   see: tinctures, alcoholic tincture
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  mit Farbe tränken, färben 
   see: tincturing, tinctured, tinctures, tinctured
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  
  βάμμα

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  1. hömpsy, napanteri, naukku, terävät
  (small) alcoholic drink
  2. sävy, vivahde
  colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains
  3. tinktuuri
  hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms
  4. uute
  medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  sävyttää, värjätä
  to colour or stain (something) with a dye or pigment

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/ 
  1. टिंचर{एक~दवा.
        "Use tincture for the wound."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  boja, tinktura, tinkturu

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  1. tinktúra
  2. színezet
  3. színárnyalat
  4. mellékíz
  5. oldat

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  tingtur
  medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  チンキ, 丁幾
  medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  tinktur
  medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  tincture //ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə// //ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ// //ˈtɪŋktjʊə// 
  tinktur 2.
  hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms
   3.
  medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  tincture /tˈɪŋktʃə/
  1. hafif renk
  2. (ecza.) mahlul, ruh, ispirto eriyiği
  3. başka şeye katılmış cüzi şey
  4. hafif renk vermek
  5. içine katmak
  6. hafifçe etkilenmek.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈtɪŋktʃɝ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  254 Moby Thesaurus words for "tincture":
     achievement, achromatism, alerion, animal charge, annulet,
     apply paint, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure,
     bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bedaub, bedizen,
     begild, bend, bend sinister, besmear, besprinkle, billet, blazon,
     blazonry, bordure, breathe, brew, broad arrow, brush on paint,
     cadency mark, calcimine, canton, cast, chaplet, charge, chevron,
     chief, chromatism, chromism, chromogen, coat, coat of arms,
     coat of paint, coating, cockatrice, color, color balance,
     color filter, color gelatin, color harmony, color scheme, colorant,
     coloration, coloring, complexion, coronet, cover, crescent, crest,
     cross, cross moline, crown, dab, dash, daub, dead-color, decoct,
     decorator color, deep-dye, device, difference, differencing, dip,
     distemper, double-dye, dredge, drier, dye, dyestuff, eagle,
     emblazon, enamel, engild, entincture, ermine, ermines, erminites,
     erminois, escutcheon, exterior paint, face, falcon, fast-dye, fess,
     fess point, field, file, flanch, flat coat, flat wash, flavor,
     fleur-de-lis, floor enamel, fresco, fret, fur, fusil, garland,
     gild, glaze, gleam, gloss, grain, griffin, ground, gules, gyron,
     hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, hint, honor point, hue, idea,
     illuminate, imbrue, imbue, impalement, impaling, impregnate,
     inescutcheon, infiltrate, infuse, infusion, ingrain, inkling,
     instill, interior paint, intimation, japan, key, label, lacquer,
     lay on color, leaven, lick, lion, look, lozenge, mantling,
     marshaling, martlet, mascle, medium, metal, motto, mullet,
     natural color, nombril point, octofoil, opaque color, or, ordinary,
     orle, paint, pale, pallor, paly, parget, pean, penetrate, permeate,
     pervade, pheon, pigment, prime, prime coat, primer, priming,
     purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, saturate,
     sauce, scintilla, scutcheon, season, seasoning, shade, shadow,
     shellac, shield, sip, skin color, slop on paint, smack, smattering,
     smear, smell, soupcon, spark, spice, spread eagle, sprinkling,
     stain, steep, stipple, strain, streak, subordinary, suffuse,
     suggestion, sup, suspicion, taint, taste, temper, tempera,
     tempering, tenne, thinner, thought, tinct, tinction, tinge, tint,
     tone, torse, touch, trace, transfuse, transparent color, tressure,
     turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, undercolor, unicorn,
     vair, varnish, vehicle, vert, vestige, wash, wash coat, whitewash,
     wreath, yale
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 颜色,气味;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 颜色,色调,染料,气息,特征,气味
     vt. 染,使有气息,使充满

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