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tinc⋅ture

  [tingk-cher] noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
2. a slight infusion, as of some element or quality: A tincture of education had softened his rude manners.
3. a trace; a smack or smattering; tinge: a tincture of irony.
4. Heraldry. any of the colors, metals, or furs used for the fields, charges, etc., of an escutcheon or achievement of arms.
5. a dye or pigment.
–verb (used with object)
6. to impart a tint or color to; tinge.
7. to imbue or infuse with something.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME: dye < L tīnctūra dyeing. See tinct, -ure
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tinc·ture   (tĭngk'chər)   
n.  
  1. A coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment.
  2. An imparted color; a tint.
  3. A quality that colors, pervades, or distinguishes.
  4. A trace or vestige: "a faint tincture of condescension" (Robert Craft).
  5. An alcohol solution of a nonvolatile medicine: tincture of iodine.
  6. Heraldry A metal, color, or fur.
tr.v.   tinc·tured, tinc·tur·ing, tinc·tures
  1. To stain or tint with a color.
  2. To infuse, as with a quality; impregnate.

[Middle English, from Latin tīnctūra, a dyeing, from tīnctus, past participle of tingere, to dye.]
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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.

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.
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tincture  (n.)
1400, from L. tinctura "act of dyeing or tingeing," from tinctus "dye," pp. of tingere "to tinge, dye, moisten, soak," from PIE base *teng- "to soak" (cf. O.H.G. dunkon "to soak," Gk. tengein "to moisten"). Meaning "solution of medicine in a mixture of alcohol" is first recorded 1646. The verb is recorded from 1616.
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Main Entry: tinc·ture
Pronunciation: 'ti[ng](k)-ch&r
Function: noun
: a solution of a medicinal substance in an alcoholic or hydroalcoholicmenstruum —compare LIQUOR b
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tincture tinc·ture (tĭngk'chər)
n.

  1. A coloring or dyeing substance.

  2. Abbr. tinct, tr An alcohol solution of a nonvolatile medicine.

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