tincture

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Dillon uses Scrappy’s Lime Bitters in Wild Ginger McKenzie’s gin-based Neil deLemongrasse Tyson cocktail, and Scrappy’s Firewater Tincture to add bite to tequila drinks.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2018

Other symptoms of shortages: > Tincture of iodine has been replaced by an alcoholic solution of complex phenols that penetrate deeply into the skin but that do not corrode metal or stain linen.

From Time Magazine Archive

And moreover, excellent Wits ought not to be drawn to the Tincture of Metals, before they be exercised well in the knowledge of Nature.

From Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous

Tincture of quince was used as a cosmetic.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

If the Infection be very strong, to take a Glass of the spirituous Tincture of the Bark just before they go into the Hospital.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald