Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tincture \Tinc"ture\, n. [L. tinctura a dyeing, from tingere,
   tinctum, to tinge, dye: cf. OE. tainture, teinture, F.
   teinture, L. tinctura. See {Tinge}.]
   1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

   2. (Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

   Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented
         in engraving by a white surface covered with small
         dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a
         plain white surface. The colors and their
         representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a
         shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or
         horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal
         and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or
         diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called
         purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner.
         The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair,
         counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See
         Illustration in Appendix.

   3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance,
      separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the
      substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

   4. (Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal
      substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit
      containing medicinal substances in solution.

   Note: According to the United States Pharmacop[oe]ia, 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.

   {Ethereal tincture}, a solution of medicinal substance in
      ether.

   5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture
      of orange peel.

   6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a
      tincture of French manners.

            All manners take a tincture from our own. --Pope.

            Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and
            scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.
                                                  --Macaulay.