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In descriptive Blazoning, Epithets, which follow their own Nouns, precede the Tinctures that are associated with those nouns: thus, a black rampant lion having golden claws is blazoned,—a lion rampt. sa., armed or.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

These simple figures, in constant use in every age of Heraldry, are divided into two groups, which correspond with the division of the Tinctures into “Metals” and “Colours.”

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

The thirty first Experiment, shewing that most Tinctures drawn by Digestion Incline to a Red, instanc'd in Jalap, Guaicum, Amber, Benzoin, Sulphur, Antimony, &c.

From Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) by Boyle, Robert

Tinctures, elixirs, sirups, and even mucilages are filtered rapidly.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

And, after this manner, you may extract many Tinctures of Colours out of other Mettals.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry