A substance that colors or dyes.

Roget 41: mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion^†; commixion^†, intermixture, alloyage^†, matrimony; junction etc. 43; combination etc. 48; miscegenation.    impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation; etc. 228 adulteration, sophistication.    [Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.    [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow^†, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid [Lat.], miscellany, ambigu^†, medley, mess, hotchpot^†, pasticcio^†, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble etc. (disorder) 59; salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum [Lat.], gallimaufry, olla-podrida^†, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic etc. (variegation) 440.    half-blood, half-caste.    mulatto; terceron^†, quarteron^†, quinteron^† &c.; quadroon, octoroon; griffo^†, zambo^†; cafuzo^†; Eurasian; fustee^†, fustie^†; griffe, ladino^†, marabou, mestee^†, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule [Lat.]; catalo^†; cross, hybrid, mongrel.    ... show more

An indication that something has been present:
— A tincture of condescension.

synonyms: shadow, trace, vestige.

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.    small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight^†, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau^†, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet^†, flitter, gobbet^†, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive^†; snip, snippet; snick^†, snack, snatch, slip, scrag^†; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.    nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction etc. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.    animalcule etc. 193.    trifle etc. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.    finiteness, finite quantity.    ... show more

Dutch: teken, spoor, overblijfsel

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color.

synonyms: shade, tint, tone.

Roget 428: color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key.    pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color.    local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective.    [Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism^†, chromatography^†, chromatology^†.    [instruments to measure color] prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments) 445.    pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint etc. (painting) 556.    ... show more

Dutch: kleurschakering, nuance, schakering, tint
Polish: ton, odcień, nuta

pharmacology A medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution.

Dutch: tinctuur
Polish: nastój

Fill, as with a certain quality:
— The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide.

synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill.

Roget 41: mix; join etc. 43; combine etc. 48; commix, immix^†, intermix; mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle^†; shuffle etc. (derange) 61; pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard etc. (interpolate) 228; intertwine, interweave etc. 219; associate with; miscegenate^†.    be mixed &c.; get among, be entangled with.    instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper^†, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.    ... show more

Stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color.