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TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, See also:Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain) , the See also:colour with which a substance is dyed; hence, metaphorically, distinctive See also:character or quality. The See also:term is used in See also:heraldry of the metals, argent, or, of the See also:colours, gules, See also:azure, See also:sable, vent, &c., or of the furs, See also:ermine, vair, &c. Since the 16th See also:century a conventional arrangement of lines and dots gives the equivalents of these tinctures in See also:black and See also:white (see HERALDRY). In See also:medicine, a tincture is a fluid See also:solution of the essential properties of some substance, See also:animal, See also:vegetable or See also:mineral; the menstruum being either See also:alcohol, See also:ether or See also:ammonia; the various kinds are accordingly distinguished as alcoholic, etherial or ammoniated tinctures.

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