tinct

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The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The shrouds were of that cloth         Which Clotho weaveth in her blackest wrath:         The dismal tinct oppress'd the eye, that dwelt         Upon it long, like darkness to be felt.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary

Pill hydrarg, to-night, and to-morrow morning a delicious goblet before breakfast—sulph mag, tinct sennae, ditto calumba.

From In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First by Speed, Lancelot

The flame o' the taper Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids To see the enclosed lights, now canopied Under these windows white and azure, lac'd With blue of heaven's own tinct.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

"Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained ____ As will not leave their tinct."

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)