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

A little too much lucent syrup tinct with cinnamon, don't you think?

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's, Whoever gave it you.

From All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William

O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grainéd spots As will not leave their tinct.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey