“ tinc·ture / ˈtingkchər/ • n. 1. a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol
2. a slight trace of something: she could not keep a tincture of bitterness out of her voice.
3. Heraldry any of the conventional colors (including the metals and stains, and often the furs) used in coats of arms.
• v. (be tinctured) be tinged, flavored, or imbued with a slight amount of: Arthur’s affability was tinctured with faint sarcasm.
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2. a slight trace of something: she could not keep a tincture of bitterness out of her voice.
3. Heraldry any of the conventional colors (including the metals and stains, and often the furs) used in coats of arms.
• v. (be tinctured) be tinged, flavored, or imbued with a slight amount of: Arthur’s affability was tinctured with faint sarcasm.
the nature of things
- Algernon: My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Jack: Oh, that is nonsense!
- Algernon: It isn’t!
- Jack: Well, I won’t argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
- Algernon: That is exactly what things were originally made for.
