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tinct
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinct \Tinct\, n. [See Tint .] Color; tinge; tincture; tint. [Archaic] ``Blue of heaven's own tinct.'' --Shak. All the devices blazoned on the shield, In their own tinct. --Tennyson.
Usage examples of tinct.
Of burnished metal, fretted and embossed With all the marvelous story of her birth Painted in prodigal splendor of rich tincts, And carved by heavenly artists,--crystal seas, And long-haired Nereids in their pearly shells, And all the wonder of her lucent limbs Sphered in a vermeil mist.
The tub was filled with steaming water tinct with sweet oils and strewn with unseasonable primrose petals like flakes of the sun.