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One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six. See Tincture.

o, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection.

The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood pain…

A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.

To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles. Thy words with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. Milton.

The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.

To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate. [R.] Bacon.

Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters." Arbuthnot.

alliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak.

Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations.

Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.

A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

To pour back. [R. & Obs.] Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. Ray.

Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

Water tinctured with roses by distillation.

The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines each other.

n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.