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

O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grainéd spots As will not leave their tinct.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

What though it be only an azoic extract of intense potato, dimly tinct with sargasso and macaroni—it has a pleasing warmth and bulk.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

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

The flame o' the taper Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids To see the enclosed lights, now canopied Under these windows white and azure, lac'd With blue of heaven's own tinct.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William