Definition of tincture

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Tincture (n.) 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..

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Drug :: Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Teinture :: Teinture (n.) Color; tinge; tincture.
Tierce :: Tierce (a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.
Wreath :: Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms..
Tincture :: Tincture (n.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory..
Elixir :: Elixir (n.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form..
Counterchanged :: Counterchanged (a.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure..
Medicate :: Medicate (v. t.) To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.
Infuse :: Infuse (v. t.) To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate..
Fur :: Fur (n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six..
Tinctured :: Tinctured (imp. & p. p.) of Tinctur.
Viroled :: Viroled (a.) Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Paregoric :: Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir..
Tincture :: Tincture (v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
Checky :: Checky (a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Imbue :: Imbue (v. t.) To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles..
Smack :: Smack (n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel..
Sinople :: Sinople (n.) The tincture vert; green.
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