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
"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)
Artifice is the strength of the world, and in that same mask of paint and powder, shadowed with vermeil tinct and most trimly pencilled, is woman's strength.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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
It has a slight "tang" of archaism—just enough to suggest "lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon," or the "spice and balm" of Miller's sea-winds.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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