tinct

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The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

It has a slight "tang" of archaism—just enough to suggest "lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon," or the "spice and balm" of Miller's sea-winds.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

"O Hamlet, speak no more; Thou turnst mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct."

From Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various

Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

To see th' inclosed Lights, now Canopied Vnder these windowes, White and Azure lac'd With Blew of Heauens owne tinct.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William