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
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Know, O my lord, that anon will come to us a little craft bearing a banner of azure tinct and all its planks are of chaunders and lign-aloes of Comorin, the most precious of woods.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's, Whoever gave it you.
From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
But whence, Think you, this tinct of cinnamon that makes The savor of the dish.
From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Cotton Noe
To see th' inclosed Lights, now Canopied Vnder these windowes, White and Azure lac'd With Blew of Heauens owne tinct.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare