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tincture

[tingk-cher] / ˈtɪŋk tʃər /


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But the 29-year-old, who ordered lion's mane online to add to coffees at home, found it expensive and switched to drinking lion's mane tincture mixed into water instead.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Q: My primary care provider had me take marshmallow root tincture for heartburn.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

Then I’ll spray my pillow and sheets with a handmade tincture of lavender, chamomile and saltwater to bring a restful sleep and sweet dreams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

The tincture of time will primarily heal this problem.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022

SCORPIUS: No. ALBUS: So if we were to get that blanket and write on it in tincture of Demiguise, then .

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

Most preshow work happens in her “dog room,” a basement utility space where pet scrubs and tinctures abound like makeup at Sephora.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

Once seated, guests are presented with a wooden box that includes 10 sample tinctures of their “Mexico Through the Senses” cocktail menu.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024

The whole plant is harvested fresh for tinctures and extracts.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024

I mention it here because Grateful Desert’s website offers a deep bench of similarly calming lotions, tinctures and aromatherapy sprays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Even if Wylan didn’t love chemistry, he knew more about tinctures and compounds than anyone in the crew other than Kuwei, and Matthias couldn’t understand half of what Kuwei said.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Lawrence bounds over to a shelf with several jars of a brown tinctured slurry, the results of which they’ll use to create a cacao perfume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

Baehrel has a thing for molecular gastronomy; his small bites are dehydrated, infused, and tinctured on their way from lawn to mouth.

From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 12, 2013

But the celebration was tinctured with deep unease.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2011

That valuable reference, generously tinctured with the author's wit, has not been allowed to go out of date; it was revised only last year by Sir Ernest Gowers, himself an eminent lexicographer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Smith says this coast resembled Devonshire with its "tinctured veines of divers colors."

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

Here Gronk pantomimed forcibly tincturing a noncompliant Belichick.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2020

Perhaps Mother had taught me about it, when we were picking rosehips or tincturing hawthorn.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Within that cave, where Penfold slept during his guardian's absence, the fires darted, tincturing with red the silver of the moonbeams against the sable wall of cliff.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

And students of jurisprudence will recall that they succeeded in tincturing the old feudal customs with those principles of the canon law which all churchmen had learned and knew.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro

For a moment longer the prince stared, hate and perplexity in equal measure tincturing his regard.

From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance


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