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A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

Distinctness. [R.]

A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.

Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

o large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.

Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.

The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.

ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. Brande & C. -- Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Wil…