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

Till Britishry and Bonapartists lose Their clashing colours for the tawny hues That twilight sets on all its stealing tinct imbues.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

"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)

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

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

From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben