tincture

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Dillon uses Scrappy’s Lime Bitters in Wild Ginger McKenzie’s gin-based Neil deLemongrasse Tyson cocktail, and Scrappy’s Firewater Tincture to add bite to tequila drinks.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2018

Other symptoms of shortages: > Tincture of iodine has been replaced by an alcoholic solution of complex phenols that penetrate deeply into the skin but that do not corrode metal or stain linen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. William Russel told me that they found this watery Tincture of Rhubarb to answer better in America than any other of the Preparations of Rhubarb.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

Vanilla Tincture.—Make this from a broken Vanilla Bean, just as you would make Lemon Tincture.

From Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six by Corson, Juliet

And moreover, excellent Wits ought not to be drawn to the Tincture of Metals, before they be exercised well in the knowledge of Nature.

From Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous