Definitions for tinctures

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tinctures tinc·ture

Spelling: [tingk-cher]

IPA: /ˈtɪŋk tʃər/

Tinctures is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in tinctures (ceinrsttu).

Definitions for tinctures

noun

1. Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
2. a slight infusion, as of some element or quality:
3. a trace; a smack or smattering; tinge:
4. Heraldry. any of the colors, metals, or furs used for the fields, charges, etc., of an escutcheon or achievement of arms.
5. a dye or pigment.

verb (used with object)

1. to impart a tint or color to; tinge.
2. to imbue or infuse with something.

Origin of tinctures

1350-1400; Middle English: dye Latin tīnctūra dyeing. See tinct, -ure

Examples for tinctures

Develop the color by going over the work with tincture of muriate of iron.

And an infusion or tincture of tobacco as recommended by Dr. Fowler of York.

Thou canst not withhold a tincture of lemon from the sweetest cup!

Used as a sedative in tincture; ten to twenty drops in water.

Externally, vesicant; used in form of ointment, or tincture.

tincture of larkspur, or an ointment made from the seeds, may also be used.

Bruise three ounces of cloves, steep them for ten days in a quart of brandy, and strain off the tincture through a flannel sieve.

A tincture for the gums may be made of three ounces of the tincture of bark, and half an ounce of sal ammoniac, mixed together.

Mix two drams of the tincture of galls with one dram of lunar caustic, and for marking of linen, use it with a pen as common ink.

The water or brine solution must be at least twenty times the bulk of the tincture.