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
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Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee.—
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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 Lancelot Speed
The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man's thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter, like the others, meeting mine with countermine.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
"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 Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor