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• TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain)

TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, See also:

• LAT

Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain)  , the See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour with which a substance is dyed; hence, metaphorically, distinctive See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character or quality . The See also:

• TERM

term is used in See also:

• HERALDRY

heraldry of the metals, argent, or, of the See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours, gules, See also:

• AZURE (derived, through the Romance languages, from the Arabic al-lazward, for the precious stone lapis lazuli, the initial 1 having dropped)

azure, See also:

• SABLE
• SABLE, AMERICAN
• SABLE, CHINESE
• SABLE, MADELEINE DE SOUVRE, MARQUISE DE (1599—1678)
• SABLE, RUSSIAN

sable, vent, &c., or of the furs, See also:

• ERMINE

ermine, vair, &c . Since the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century a conventional arrangement of lines and dots gives the equivalents of these tinctures in See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black and See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white (see HERALDRY) . In See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, a See also:

• TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain)

tincture is a fluid See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of the essential properties of some substance, See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal, See also:

• VEGETABLE

vegetable or See also:

• MINERAL

mineral; the menstruum being either See also:

• ALCOHOL

alcohol, See also:

• ETHER, (C2H5)2O

ether or See also:

• AMMONIA (NH3)

ammonia; the various kinds are accordingly distinguished as alcoholic, etherial or ammoniated tinctures .