Meaning

(obsolete) colour; tinge; tincture.

Example Sentences

Thy blithe vivacity, yet manners meek, Thy waving ringlets and thy step so light, The rosy teinture of thy dimpled cheek, Impress'd each heart with exquisite delight.

A boundless view, like that of the Atlantic, or Pacific; but destitute of the sound of the winds, the music of waters, the teinture of clouds, and the motion, which gives life and circulation to the most torpid of temperatures.

To Maria it was an epoch which seemed to be of the utmost importance to her future life—alas! how little did she dream that, in reality, it would decide what the teinture of that life was to be! —and some hours were spent in dressing for this momentous appearance, which, in both Maria and Mrs. Woodford's estimation, was not of less consequence than that of a first-rate beauty of the court circle.

his eyes as bright as the burnishing of the heauen, darting foorth frownes with disdaine, and smiles with fauor, lightning such lookes as would enflame desire, were shee wrapt in the Circle of the frozen Zoane; in his cheekes the vermilion teinture of the Rose flourished vpon naturall Alabaster, the blush of the Morne and Lunaes siluer showe were so liuely portrayed, that the Troyan that fils out wine to Iupiter was not halfe so beautifull;

He had called at her quiet cottage, and he liked the teinture of old family pride that sat upon her simpleness like a vellum volume, richly bound, upon a bare deal board.

Otherwise, the doctor could administer a decoction of husks of nuts, quinine, sulphuric ether, and teinture of oranges.

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