noun. A coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment.

noun. An imparted color; a tint.

noun. A quality that colors, pervades, or distinguishes.

noun. A trace or vestige.

noun. An alcohol solution of a nonvolatile medicine.

noun. A metal, color, or fur.

transitive verb. To stain or tint with a color.

transitive verb. To infuse, as with a quality; impregnate.

To imbue with color; impart a shade of color to; tinge; tint; stain.

To give a peculiar taste, flavor, or character to; imbue; impregnate; season.

To taint; corrupt.

noun. The color with which anything is imbued or impregnated; natural or distinctive coloring; tint; hue; shade of color.

noun. In heraldry, one of the metals, colors, or furs used in heraldic achievements.

noun. Something exhibiting or imparting a tint or shade of color; colored or coloring matter; pigment.

noun. Infused or derived quality or tone; distinctive character as due to some intermixture or influence; imparted tendency or inclination: used of both material and immaterial things; in alchemy, etc., a supposed spiritual principle or immaterial substance whose character or quality may be infused into material things, then said to be tinctured : as, tincture of the “Red Lion.”

noun. A shade or modicum of a quality or of the distinctive quality of something; a coloring or flavoring; a tinge; a taste; a spice; a smack: as, a tincture of garlic in a dish.

noun. A fluid containing the essential principles or elements of some substance diffused through it by solution; specifically, in medicine, a solution of a vegetable, an animal, or sometimes a mineral substance, in a menstruum of alcohol, sulphuric ether, or spirit of ammonia, prepared by maceration, digestion, or (now most commonly) percolation.

noun. Bitter tincture.

transitive verb. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

transitive verb. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

noun. A tinge or shade of color; a tint.

noun. One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

noun. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

noun. A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

noun. a solution of medicinal substance in ether.

noun. A slight taste superadded to any substance.

noun. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.

noun. A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.

noun. A tint, or an added colour.

noun. A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.

noun. An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.

noun. A small alcoholic drink.

noun. An essential characteristic.

verb. to stain or impregnate (something) with colour

verb. stain or tint with a color

noun. an indication that something has been present

noun. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

noun. a substances that colors metals

verb. fill, as with a certain quality

noun. (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution