Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A color or tint.
- adjective Colored lightly or faintly; tinged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tint; tinge; coloring; hue.
- noun A tincture; an essence; specifically, the grand elixir of the alchemists.
- To tinge or tint, as with color; hence, figuratively, to imbue.
- Tinged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Color; tinge; tincture; tint.
- transitive verb Archaic To color or stain; to imblue; to tint.
- adjective Archaic Tined; tinged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
tint orcolour - verb to tint,
tinge or colour - adjective
tinged or lightlycoloured - abbreviation
tincture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb color lightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, a transforming elixir, from Latin tīnctus, a dyeing, from past participle of tingere, to dye.]
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aokajiya commented on the word tinct
This word's examples seem to be picking up a lot of false hits for extinct and distinct.
March 26, 2012