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

I have cured well-marked cases of Fungus Hæmatodes with the tinct.

From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by Hill, B. L. (Benjamin L.)

"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)

Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee.—

From Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare, William

From thee the sapphire, solid ether, takes Its hue cerulean; and, of evening tinct, The purple streaming amethyst is thine.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various