tincture

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• Definitions:
• a solution prepared by steeping or soaking (maceration) plant materials in alcohol and water.
• (tink'-tur) The name given to the colors, metals and furs used in heraldry. The tinctures may be classed as follows:
• The generic term for the colors of the heraldic palette, including the metals and furs.
• (tinc·ture) (tink´ch?r) [L. tingere to wet, to moisten] an alcoholic or hydroalcoholic solution prepared from vegetable materials or from chemical substances.
• An extract of a plant made by soaking herbs in a dark place with a desired amount of either glycerine, alcohol, or vinegar for two to six weeks. The liquid is strained from the plant material and then may be used therapeutically.
• The two Tinctures are the source of the fundamental conflict and tension that drives human life, the ‘two eternities’ of ‘Under Ben Bulben’: the primary representing the One, the macrocosm, the race, the collective, the objective, truth, and knowledge, which strives with and against the ...
• the liquid form of an herb. Most tinctures are alcohol based and are made by soaking the herb in a drinkable form of alcohol (ethanol, grain). This extracts the active parts of the herb while also acting as a preservative. ...
• A water and alcohol concentration of a plant used either for convenience, or because of some active constituents are not very soluble in tea.
• A liquid usually made by soaking a whole herb or its parts in a mixture of water and ethyl alcohol (such as vodka). The alcohol helps extract the herb's active components, concentrating and preserving them.
• colour in heraldic illustration; there are three basic types: colours (all unpatterned colours that are not metals), metals (such as argent or or) and furs
• An herbal preparation made by soaking plant material in a liquid solvent (called a menstrum) to extract active medicinal Constituents.
• The term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic solutions of volatile substances being called spirits. ...
• A coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment.
• is cold-processed alcoholic extract from natural products. They were much favored in former times, but their use today is on the decline for economic reasons.
• a solution in which the solvent is an alcohol.
• An alcoholic solution of a medicinal substance.
• A liquid extract of an herb prepared by steeping the herb in an alcohol and water mixture.
• the metals, colours, and furs used in armoury are called tincture. As a general rule, a charge of metal should never be placed upon a metal field, nor a coloured charge upon a coloured field, but to this there are some exceptions. ...
• a substances that colors metals trace: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" impregnate: fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" shade: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution stain or tint with a color; "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red"
• In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract (e.g. of a herb) or solution of a nonvolatile substance (e.g. of iodine, mercurochrome. ...
• In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to blazon a coat of arms.

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