Definition of tincture

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

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Alcoholature :: Alcoholature (n.) An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture..
Smack :: Smack (n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
Compone :: Compone (a.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony..
Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel..
Paregoric :: Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir..
Drug :: Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Liquor :: Liquor (n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
Tinctured :: Tinctured (imp. & p. p.) of Tinctur.
Rhabarbarate :: Rhabarbarate (a.) Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.
Imbuement :: Imbuement (n.) The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture..
Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.
Guze :: Guze (n.) A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture..
Paly :: Paly (a.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately..
Fur :: Fur (n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six..
Crined :: Crined (a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture..
Sinople :: Sinople (n.) The tincture vert; green.
Shafted :: Shafted (a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
Winged :: Winged (a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body..
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..
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