Tincture /(?)/

1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
2. One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory. (Her.)
3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
4. A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution. (Med.)
5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.

   All manners take a tincture from our own.

   Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.

imp. & p. p. Tinctured; p. pr. & vb. n. Tincturing

1. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

   A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors.

2. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

   The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul.