tinchel 
great space and gradually closing in, bring a 
nuiubi i cifdrci- ' 
We'll quell the savage mountaineer, 
As their Tinc/ut ruwa tin- game '. 
.Viv.H, L. of the I.., vi. 17. 
tinclad (tin'klad). ii. [A humorous name, after 
irnnrliiil : < tin + clail."} Ill the civil war in the 
United States, a gunboat protected by very 
light plating of metal, used on the westeni 
rivers. [Oolloq.] 
He 1 1. .el-! c..iu-erted . . . seven traii8]><>rta Into what 
were railed tindad*, or musket-proof Krnilioats. 
Set. Ainer., N. 8., I VI. 268. 
tinct (tingkt), r. t. [< L. tinctux, pp. of tingere, 
dye, tinge: see tinge. Cf. taint*, .] To tinge 
or tint, as with color; hence, figuratively, to 
imbue. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
I will hut . . . tiHet you the tip, 
The very tip o' your nose. 
II. Jonaon, Fortunate Isles. 
Home bencher, tincted with humanity. 
/;. Jonton, Every Man out of his Humour, Ded. 
tinct (tingkt), a. [< L. tinctus, pp.: see the verb.] 
Tinged. 
The blew In black, the greene In gray Is ''- 
Spenser, Shep. Cat, November. 
tinct (tingkt), n. [< L. tinctus, dyeing, < tingere, 
pp. tinctus, dye: see tinct, r., tinge. Cf. taint 1 , 
tint 1 , doublets of tinct."] 1. Tint; tinge; color- 
ing; hue. [Obsolete or poetical.] 
AH the devices blazon 'd on the shield 
In their own tinct. 
Tennyton, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2f. A tincture; an essence; specifically, the 
grand elixir of the alchemists. 
Plutua himself, 
That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine. 
Shale., AlTs Well, v. 3. 102. 
How much unlike art thou Mark Antony ! 
Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath 
With his tin,'! gilded thee. Shale., A. and < '.. i. 6. 37. 
tinction (tingk'shou), . [< L. as if tinctio(n-), 
< tingere, dye : see tinge.} A preparation for 
dyeing; coloring matter in a state for use; 
that which imparts color. [Recent.] 
It also colors somewhat under the same application of 
the (faction. Amer. Hat., Feb., 1888, p. 117. 
tinctorial (tingk-to'ri-al), a. [< F. tinctorial, 
(. L. t\nctorius,<. (LL.) iinctor, a, dyer, < tingere, 
pp. tinetus, dye: see tinge. Cf. taintor.] Per- 
taining or relating to color or dyeing; produ- 
cing or imparting color. 
Alizarin, the chief tinctorial principle of madder. 
Encyc. Brit., IV. 687. 
Alumina cannot be called a tinctorial or colour-giving 
matter. It'. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-Printing, p. 142. 
tincturation (tingk-tu-rii'shon), n. [< tincture 
+ -aiion.] The preparation of a tincture ; the 
treatment of a substance by solution in a men- 
struum, especially alcohol or ether. [Rare.] 
Odorous substances yield their odours to spirit by tine- 
turatiou that is, by putting the fragrant material into the 
spirit, and allowing it to remain there for a period till the 
alcohol has extracted all the scent. Ure, Diet., III. 537. 
tincture (tiugk'tur). . [= F. teinture = Sp. 
Pg. It. tiiitura, <~L. tinctura, a dyeing, < tingere, 
pp. tinctus, dye: see tinct, tinge. Cf. tainture, 
an older form.] 1. The color with which any- 
thing is imbued or impregnated ; natural or dis- 
tinctive coloring; tint; hue; shade of color. 
For, deep dy'd In his mighty precious Blood, 
It keeps the pow'r and tincture of the flood. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 82. 
The faded rose each spring receives 
A fresh red tincture on her leaves. 
Carev, To A. L. 
Clouds of all tincture, rocks and sapphire sky, 
Confused, commingled, mutually inflamed. 
Wordstporth, Excursion, ii. 
2. In her., one of the metals, colors, or furs 
used in heraldic achievements. The metals are or 
(gold) and argent (silver) : the colors, gules (red), azure 
(blue), sable (black), vert (green), purpure (purple), sail- 
** 
Heraldic Tinctures. 
I, or; 2, areent; }, pules; 4, azure ; 5, sable; 6, vert ; 7, purpure ; 
8, sarufuine or murrey ; 9, ru, tentie or tawny. 
guine or murrey (blood-red), and tenne or tenney (tawny, 
orange); and the furs, ermine, ermines, erminuis. pean, 
vuir. etmiiter-vuir, potent, and counter-potent. (See these 
words, and also/uri, 7.) Of the colors, the tlrst three are 
the most common, and the last two are very exceptional. 
in considered by some writers as partaking of the 
nature both of metal and of color. In modern usage (from 
the sixteenth century), in rejm senutinn- In black and 
white, as by engraving, argent Is Indicated by a plain sur- 
face, and the other tinctures by conventional arrange- 
ments of lines, etc., as In the cut. A law of heraldry sel- 
dom violated provides that the tincture of a bearing 
must be a metal If the field Is a color, and vice versa. Bee 
/al*e heraldry, under false. 
The first English examples of seals with lines in the en- 
graving to Indicate the tinctures are said to be on some of 
those attached to the death warrant of Charles I., 1048-9. 
Tran*. Hint. Soc. Lancashire and Cheshire, N. S., V. 62. 
3. Something exhibiting or imparting a tint 
or shade of color ; colored or coloring matter ; 
pigment. [Obsolete or rare.] 
These waters wash from the rocks such glistering tinc- 
tures that the ground in some places seemeth as gullded. 
I'll,,!. John Smith, Works, I. US. 
4. Infused or derived quality or tone; distinc- 
tive character as due to some intermixture or 
influence ; imparted tendency or inclination : 
used of both material and immaterial things; 
in alchemy, etc., a supposed spiritual principle 
or immaterial substance whose character or 
quality may be infused into material things, 
tnen said to be tinctured: as, tincture of the 
"Bed Lion." 
From what particular mineral they (natural baths] re- 
ceive tincture, as sulphur, vitriol, steel, or the like. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, II. 
The tincture I early recelv'd from generous and worthy 
parents, and the education they gave me, disposing . . . 
me to the love of letters. 
F.I ilii n. To the Countess of Sunderland. 
Lastly, to walk with God doth increase the love of Ood 
in the soul, which is the heavenly tincture, and Incllneth 
It to look upward. Baxter, Divine Life, 11. r.. 
6. A shade or modicum of a quality or of the 
distinctive quality of something ; a coloring or 
flavoring; a tinge; a taste; a spice; a smack: 
as, a tincture of garlic in a dish. 
A tinct n ri- of malice (n our natures makes us fond of fur- 
nishing every bright idea with Its reverse. 
Swift, Tale of a Tub, viii. 
6. A fluid containing the essential principles 
or elements of some substance diffused through 
it by solution; specifically, in nied., a solution 
of a vegetable, an animal, or sometimes a min- 
eral substance, in a menstruum of alcohol, sul- 
phuric ether, or spirit of ammonia, prepared by 
maceration, digestion, or (now most common- 
ly) percolation. Tinctures are also often prepared, es- 
pecially on the continent of Europe, by the addition of al- 
cohol to the expressed Juices of plants. According to the 
menstruum, tinctures are distinguished as alcoholic, ethe- 
real, and ammoniated tinctures; and when wine is used 
they are called medicated wines. Compound tinctures are 
those in which two or more ingredients are submitted 
to the action of the solvent. Simple tinctures are such as 
contain the essential principles of but one substance in 
solution. 
This little gallipot 
Of tincture, high rose tincture. 
B. Jonton, Fortunate Isles. 
Bestucheff's nervous tincture, an ethereal solution of 
Iron chlorid, formerly much used in gout and in states of 
nervous depression. Also called golden tincture and Klap- 
roth's tincture. Bitter tincture, a composition of gen- 
tian, centaury, bitter orange-peel, orange-berries, and zedo- 
ary-root. extracted in alcohol. Fleming's tincture, a 
strong tincture of aconite. Greenough's tincture, a 
tooth-wash containing alum, bitter almond, logwood, or- 
ris-root, horse-radish, oxalate of potash, cassia-berries, and 
cochineal, extracted in alcohol. Hatfleld's tincture, a 
tincture of gualac and soap. Huxham's tincture, com- 
pound tincture of cinchona. Mother tincture, in home- 
opathic pharmacy, the strong tincture from which the di- 
lutions are made. Red tincture. Same as yreat elixir 
(which see, under elixir, IX Rymer's cardiac tincture, 
tincture of rhubarb and aloes, containing in addition cam- 
phor, capsicum, cardamom, and sulphuric acid. Sto- 
machic tincture, (a) Compound tincture of cardamom. 
(6) Bitter tincture. Volatile tincture of bark, a tinc- 
ture containing cinchona and aromatic spirit of ammonia. 
Warburg's tincture, an alcoholic preparation formed 
of a large number of ingredients, among which are quinine, 
aloes, rhubarb, gentian, myrrh, and camphor. It is used 
as a substitute for quinine in malarial fever and other dis- 
orders. Wnite tincture. Same as lesser elixir (which 
see. under elixir, 1). WhyU's tincture, a compound 
tincture containing cinchona, gentian, and orange-peeL 
tincture (tingk'tur), r. <.; pret. andpp.t/ncfurrc/, 
ppr. tincturing. [< tincture, n.~\ 1. To imbue 
with color ; impart a shade of color to; tinge; 
tint; stain. 
The rest of the lies are replenished with such like; 
very rocky, and much tinctured stone like Mineral). 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 106. 
A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay 
colours. Watts. 
Boys with apples, cakes, candy, and rolls of variously 
tinctured lozenges. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xvii. 
2. To give a peculiar taste, flavor, or character 
to; imbue; impregnate; season. 
Early were our minds nurtured with a distinguishing 
sense of good and evil : early were the seeds of a divine 
love, and holy fear of offending, sown In our hearts. 
Bp. Alterbury, Sermons I. xviii. 
tinder-box 
Ills manners ... are tinctured with some strange In- 
consistencies Uoldtmith, t itizi-n uf the World, xxvl. 
3. To taint; corrupt. [Rare.] 
And what can be the Meaning of such a Representation, 
unless It be to Tincture the Audience, to extinguish Shame, 
and make Lewdnets a Diversion ? 
Jeremy Collier, short View (ed. 1898X P. * 
tincture-press (tingk'tur-preB), n. A press for 
extracting by comprr-v-ic m the- in-live |irin<-ip|i-- 
<>f plants, etc. /-,'. //. Kniijlil. 
tind't (tind), r. t. and . [() Also dial. tn-ml. 
also with loss of the final consonant tint; teen ; 
prop, tend, < MK. tauten, teenden, < A8. tendun, 
in comp. oii-tendun, = Icel. "tenda (in later form 
'- mlra) = Sw. tanda = Dan. txndc = Goth. 
Iniiiljiin, kindle ; (6) in another form, prop, tind, 
< ME. "tinilfn, < AS. 'tyndan = OH(i. :<niti. 
MHO. G. ziinden, set on fire (also OHG. znndeu, 
MHG. zunden, burn, glow); (c) cf. Goth, tund- 
nan, take fire, burn : all secondary forms of a 
strong verb, AS. as if "tindan (pret. *tand, pp. 
*tunden) = MHG. zinden = Goth, "tindan, set 
on fire. Hence tinder.] To set on fire ; kin- 
dle; light; inflame. 
"The candel of lijf thi smile dide tcnde, 
To lljtc thee hom,"resouu dide saye. 
Hymnt to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. 8.), p. 69. 
Tho a full gret fire thay tende made and hade, 
With busshes and wod makyng It fall by. 
Rom. o/Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 213. 
Part (of the Christmas brand) must be kept wherewith to 
trend 
The Christmas log next yeare. 
Herrick, Ceremonies for Candlemasse Day. 
As one candle timfctA a thousand. 
Bp. Sanderson, Sermons (1689), p. 56. (llalliu'elt.) 
tind 2 t (tind), n. [Early mod. E. also tynd; < ME. 
tind, tynd, < AS. tind, a point, prong, = D. tinne 
= MLG. tinne = OHG. zinna, MHG. zinne (cf. 
MHG. :int), G. :inm; pinnacle, battlement, 
= Icel. tindr, spike, tooth of rake or harrow, 
= Sw. tinne, tooth of a rake, = Dan. tinde, pin- 
nacle, battlement; prob. connected with tooth 
(Goth, tunthus, etc.): see tooth. Hence, by loss 
of the final consonant, the mod. form fine 7 .] 
A prong, or something projecting like a prong; 
an animal's horn ; a branch or limb of a tree ; a 
protruding arm. 
Therfore thl fruit [Christ) spred hys armes 
On tre that is tijed with tyndes towe. 
lloly Rood (E. E. T. S,\ p. 201. 
The thrydd hownde fyghtyng he fyndys, 
The beste stroke hym wyth hys tyndys. 
US. Cantab. Ff. Ii. 88, f. 78. (BattiweU.) 
tindal (tin'dal), . [< Malayalam tandal, Telu- 
gu tandelu, Marathi tandel, a chief or comman- 
der of a body of men.] ' A native petty officer 
of lascars, either a corporal or a boatswain. See 
lascar. 
The Malays . . . were under the control of a I i mini 
a sort of boatswain, elected from among their own num- 
ber. J. W. Palmer, I'p and Down the Irrawaddl, p. 17. 
tinder (tin'der), n. [< ME. tinder, tender, tun- 
der, tonder, < AS. tynder = MD. tondcr, tondel, 
tintel, D. tonder, tintel = MLG. LG. tunder = 
OHG. ztmtera, zun trd, MHG. G. -under (cf . OHG. 
sttHtil, MHG. nindel, G. zundel) = Icel. tundr, 
tinder (cf . tandri, fire), = Sw. t under = Dan. ton- 
der, tinder; with formative -er, from the strong 
verb which is the source of tind: see fi'wrf 1 .] 
A dry substance that readily takes fire from a 
spark or sparks; specifically, a preparation or 
material used for catching the spark from a flint 
and steel struck together for fire or light. See 
x jiii ill:, 1. When tinder was in general use instead of 
matches, it consisted commonly of charred linen, which 
was Ignited in a metallic box. 
Your conjuring, cozening, and your dozen of trades 
Could not relieve your corps with so much linen 
Would make you tinder. B. Jonton, Alchemist. L 1. 
Ill go strike a tinder, and frame a letter presently. 
DeUter and Webster, Northward Ho, iii. 2. 
German tinder. Same as amadou. Spanish tinder, a 
substance supposed to have been prepared from the pubes- 
cence of the Bower-heads, leaves, and stems of a species of 
globe-thistle, Echinaps rtrigosus, found In Spain, 
tinder-box (tin'der-boks), n. 1. A box in which 
tinder is kept ready for use, usually fitted with 
flint and steel, the steel being often secured to 
a lifting cover so that the flint, when struck 
against it, sends sparks upon the tinder within. 
As wakeful) Students, In the Winters night, 
Against the steel glannclng with stony knocks, 
Strike sodaln sparks into their Tinder-box. 
Sfleester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks. L 2. 
It has been reserved for this century to substitute the 
lucifer-match for the tinder-box. 
Quarterly Ret , CXLVI. 1B7. 
2. By extension, something easily inflamma- 
ble : as, the house was nothing but a tinder-box. 
[Colloq.] 
