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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
The act of colouring or dyeing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete
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noun
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
Synonym of baptism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: baptism
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noun
Scientific and alchemical senses.
A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pharmacy
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noun
Scientific and alchemical senses.
A (small) alcoholic drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, humorous
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Synonyms: adult beverage, alcohol, bevvy, booze, carouse, drink, fuddling, grog, hard drink, libation, liquor, lush, nightcap, potation, potent potable, sauce, shot, strong drink, strong water, tiddly, tincture, tipple
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noun
Scientific and alchemical senses.
An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: obsolete except historical
Topics: alchemy, pseudoscience
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noun
Scientific and alchemical senses.
A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: obsolete except historical
Topics: alchemy, pseudoscience
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noun
Scientific and alchemical senses.
The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: obsolete except historical
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: pharmacy
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verb
To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, rare
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noun
(pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
Narrower terms: tincture of iodine, iodine, arnica
noun
a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: shade, tint, tone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: color, colour, coloring, colouring
Narrower terms: mellowness, richness, undertone, tinge
noun
an indication that something has been present
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: trace, vestige, shadow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: indication, indicant
Narrower terms: footprint
noun
a substances that colors metals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
Narrower terms: argent
verb
stain or tint with a color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tint, tinct, tinge, touch
verb
fill, as with a certain quality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fill, fill up, make full
History
The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of tainture, teinture, and tinctura. The verb is derived from the noun.
Across languages
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