tinct

plural tincts

1. archaicA tint or colour.

   blue of heaven's own tinct

   1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

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   [She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]

   1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 147

   The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.

   1889. Gissing, George. The Nether World, Volume 3 Chapter 1

present singular third person tincts · participle present tincting · participle past tincted · past tincted

1. to tint, tinge or colour

comparative more tinct · superlative most tinct

1. tinged or lightly coloured

   The blew in black, the greene in gray is tinct, […]

   1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 45, verso

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of tincture.