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Tinct

Tinct \Tinct\, a. [L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to tinge. See Tinge.] Tined; tinged. [Archaic]
--Spenser.

Tinct

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.

Tinct

Tinct \Tinct\, v. t. [See Tinge.] To color or stain; to imblue; to tint. [Archaic]
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tinct

"color, tint," c.1600, from Latin tinctus "a dyeing," from tingere "to dye" (see tincture).

Wiktionary
tinct

abbr. tincture

  1. tinged or lightly coloured n. a tint or colour v

  2. to tint, tinge or colour

WordNet
tinct

v. dye with a color [syn: tint, bepaint, tinge, touch]

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.