1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy Proem in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 7 All such Men as give Tincture to Glasse.

1555 R. Eden tr. V. Biringucci Pyrotechnia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 328 Certeyne waters..do..shewe..dyuers tinctures of mynerall substaunce.

1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 11 in Jewell House If you may not giue a tincture to your creame before you chearne it.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. D4^v The shuddering morne that flakes, With siluer tinctur, the east vierge of heaven.

1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv 'Tis not..The tincture of a skin, that I admire.

1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville (ed. 2) I. 254 The heat of the mask had given to her complexion such a tincture of red.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 479 The matter has a bloody tincture, and a bilious smell.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. iii. 7 Tincture is a variable hew of Armes and is common aswell to Differences of Armes as to the Armes themselues.

1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) Tincture, is no other than the Hue or Colour of any thing in Coat-Armour, and under this Denomination may be also included the two Metals Or and Argent..because they are often represented by Yellow and White, and they themselves bear those Colours.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1240/2 Tinctures, in Heraldry, are of three descriptions: metals, colours, and furs. The former are or, argent; the second gules, azure, sable, vert, purpure, sanguine, and tenny. The chief furs are ermine and vair; but there are several varieties of both, distinguished by different names.

1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry v. 26 The representation of the Tinctures by means of dots and lines was not in use..before..the accession of the Stuarts.

1891 Sc. Notes & Queries Apr. 210/2 At the foot of the stone there is cut the armorial coat..carved so as to show the tinctures, viz., Sable, a fess between three mascles, two and one, or.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. ix. 620 This stone [Chrysoprase] is very apt to bee counterfeited, and especially by tincture.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ii. 58 This Tincture of Hair is most shameful and detestable in men.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Tincture, a dying or colouring.

a1640 J. Ball Answer to Iohn Can (1642) ii. 9 Our service was picked and culled out of the masse booke..so it might, and yet be free from all fault and tincture.

a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 149 To offend against so Gracious a Patron, would add a Tincture to our Disobedience.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 306 Whether it bee by the nature, or tincture and temper thereof.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. v. 77 They receiue their tincture of saltnesse from some salt minerals of the Earth.

1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xiii. 7) 228 Anything..that might give a tincture of acidity to the Bread.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Distilling The Waters..smell of Smoke, and had a Tincture of Adustion.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. Illustr. 184 They had liued here C.L. yeers by the common account without tincture of true religion.

1697 G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies 107 This irreligious custom..has a tincture of atheism in it.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 38. ⁋5 This, perhaps, cannot be called Affectation; but it has some Tincture of it.

1775 T. Tyrwhitt Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 26 We may fairly conclude, that the English language must have imbibed a strong tincture of the French, long before the age of Chaucer.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. iv. 43 Ernst August has some tincture of soldiership at this time.

1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 68 A Quintessence? nay wel it may be call'd A deathlesse tincture, sent vs from the skies Whose colour stands, whose glosse is ne'er appall'd.

1649 J. Ellistone in tr. J. Böhme Epist. Pref. sig. a2 This..conduces to the attainment of the Universall Tincture, and signature; whereby the different secret qualities, and vertues, that are hid in all visible and corporeall things..may be drawne forth and applyed to their right naturall use.

1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. iii. xxxiv. 44 Operation of the Phylosophers stone [or universall tincture from me].

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 282 Tinctura, a Tincture, or Elixir is the Extraction of the Colour, Quality, and Strength of any thing.

1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 48 If by chaunce her Maiestie had layed her hand vpon the poysoned pomel of the Sadle in the moneth of Iuly when the pores and veynes are open she might haue byn poysoned or receaue maligne vapors or tinctures.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 52 The purest part [of the Sap]..recedes, with its due Tinctures, from the said Cortical Body, to the Lignous.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 154 Precipitation is made by the mixture and re-action of the Tinctures of the Lignous and Cortical Bodies upon each other.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. xii. 241 The Fertility of their Soil by the Inundation of Nilus, which at its recess leaves so fruitful a Tincture, that thereby and by the heat of the Sun, Animals have their visible production.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. iv. 267 The..Dew exhaled from some sorts of Herbs or Weeds,..carries with it the Seminal Tincture of the Herb.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. D4 Infuse vinegar, To draw his volatile substance, and his tincture . View more context for this quotation

1625 B. Jonson Fortunate Isles 155 This little gally pot, Of tincture, high rose tincture.

1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 179 A way by which the tincture of gold which is the soule thereof,..may be..extracted.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 39 Many of our best Mechanicks being too much addicted to the tincture of this Grain [barley].

1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis Pref. sig. B3 As to the discovery of Metalline tinctures in waters.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tincture..In Chymistry, the Extraction of the Colour, Quality and Strength of any thing.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tincture of the Moon, is a Dissolution of some of the more rarify'd parts of Silver, made in Spirit of Wine, and whetted by Alkali-Salts.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 355 'Tis not unlikely that Grain may afford its Tincture, and that excellent Beer and Ale may be made thereof without Malting.

1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets ii. 172 An excellent Spirit of Wine, fit to draw Tinctures.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Tincture, in Chymistry, is a Dissolution of the more fine, and volatile Parts of a mixt Body in Spirit of Wine, or some such proper Menstruum.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 184 A Tincture is likewise extracted with Spirit of Wine Tartariz'd.

1774 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 3) App. 736 Aromatic Tincture. Infuse two ounces of Jamaica pepper in two pints of brandy, without heat, for a few days; then strain off the tincture.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 327 Alcohol dissolves resins and resinous gums: these solutions are called Tinctures, Elixirs, Quintessences, &c.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 83 The results were the same when tincture of opium was employed.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1240/2 The term tincture is sometimes applied to alcoholic solutions of resins, of which tincture of myrrh, of assafœtida, &c. furnish instances.

1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 162 Tincture of Aconite. (Aconite root, in coarse powder, two ounces and a half; rectified spirit, twenty fluid ounces. Prepared by maceration and percolation.)

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 115 Weathers made them all have just one little tincture at his expense.

1980 Ingrams & Wells Dear Bill 36 Rough diamond, especially after a tincture or two.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) v. xxxviii. 515 Innocuous Whirl-winds of sincere Air, tinctured only with a cool refreshing smell.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 53 The remainder..is in part carried off into the Cortical Body back again, the Sap whereof it now tinctures into good Aliment.

1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity vii. xii. 237 Water may be capable to be tinctured with uncleanness.

1820 Mair's Tyro's Dict. (ed. 10) Aluminosus,..tinctured with, smelling or tasting of alum.

1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse Prol. So pure a mind, As if tinctur'd from Heaven.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours i. xiii. 47 He professed himselfe to be a Physician (although he was but lightly tinctured with the knowledge of Physick).

1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme Apol. Perfection in Remainder Bks. 147 I must be Tinctured or else I cannot be Transmuted; If Christ do not Tincture me with his Bloud, then my Holy Paradise-Life remaineth faded.

1718 Free-thinker No. 7. 1 His Conversation was tinctured throughout with the Ancient Mythology.

1878 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David V. Ps. cxv. 1 The prayer is evidently tinctured with a consciousness of unworthiness.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen To Rdr. p. xviii It [sc. a portrait] is like, but a likeness that tinctures of the prejudice of friendship.