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

I mean to tinct C in sand-heat to-morrow, And give him imbibition.

From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben

By thine ey's tinct enobled thus,155 Time layes him vp; he's pretious.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

"O Hamlet, speak no more; Thou turnst mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct."

From Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various