Usually means: Liquid extract, often herbal, concentrated.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tincture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tincture: Merriam-Webster
  3. tincture, tincture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tincture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tincture: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tincture: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tincture, tincture: Wordnik
  8. tincture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tincture: Wiktionary
  10. tincture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tincture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tincture: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tincture: Dictionary.com
  14. tincture (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tincture (heraldry), Tincture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tincture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tincture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tincture: Rhymezone
  19. Tincture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tincture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tincture: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tincture: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. tincture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tincture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Tincture: World Wide Words

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tincture: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tincture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tincture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. tincture: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tincture: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tincture: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tincture: Beauty & Health Glossary

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noun:  Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
noun:  (obsolete) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic. [15th–19th c.]
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
noun:  (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
noun:  (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur, or metal.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  The act of colouring or dyeing.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.
noun:  A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
noun:  (Christianity) Synonym of baptism
noun:  Scientific and alchemical senses.
noun:  (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
noun:  (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
noun:  (obsolete except historical)
noun:  (alchemy)
noun:  An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
noun:  A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
noun:  (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
verb:  (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
verb:  (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.

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