Tincture

Definition of Tincture

Tinc´ture

A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

(Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

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.

(Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

Ethereal tincture
a solution of medicinal substance in ether.

A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.

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.

v. t.

To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

[imp. & p. p. Tinctured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tincturing.]

A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors.

- I. Watts.

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.

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