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Showing a slight tinge, metal smoked, keeping temperature well up
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tinctured
Word definitions for tinctured in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: tincture )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tincture \Tinc"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinctured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tincturing .] To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter. A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. --I. Watts. ...
Usage examples of tinctured.
I fear with some reason, that female conversation is too frequently tinctured with a censorious spirit, and that ladies are seldom apt to discover much tenderness for the errors of a fallen sister.
From the whole of his doctrines, Wickliffe appears to have been strongly tinctured with enthusiasm, and to have been thereby the better qualified to oppose a church whose chief characteristic is superstition.