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Example sentences for "tincture"

Lexicographically close words:
tinas; tinct; tincted; tinctorial; tinctura; tinctured; tinctures; tinder; tine; tined
  1. And are you devoid of any tincture of philosophy, that you should harp on such exploded fallacies?

  2. He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.

  3. In questioning the Baron as to his suggestion respecting the tincture of tannin, I put it plainly to him whether he had been led to make it by any suspicion of poison.

  4. On taking it from his hand, I found that it contained tincture of tannin, a preparation much used for the teeth.

  5. For the mercury, having to some extent been rendered volatile, will gradually become fit to receive the tincture of gold and silver.

  6. And our tincture is wholly converted into sulphur, which possesses the energy of curing every disease; this is our universal medicine against all the most deplorable ills of the human body.

  7. Nearly all the men of Edinburgh, with any tincture of literature, had met him personally, and a few knew him well.

  8. A tincture of bigotry appears in all the actions of a bigot.

  9. He never fairly plunged into the stream of school-education, but, by floating on the surface, imbibed a small tincture of those different sciences which his master pretended to teach.

  10. A little Peruvian bark put in a phial with lime water is excellent to use occasionally by those that have offensive teeth; and tincture of myrrh mixed with a little water, may be used with advantage, to harden the gums.

  11. If for vanilla cream; use a table-spoonful of tincture of vanilla, two eggs beaten; mix well and freeze in the usual way.

  12. A child of twelve months, may take of the tincture ten drops every fifteen or twenty minutes, till it acts as an emetic, or relieves by perspiration; one of two or three years may take twenty or thirty drops.

  13. The young ladies of the family, without a tincture of affectation, will languish as they gaze on the lovely Luna.

  14. She may now take an ammoniated saline, with tincture of hop or henbane during the day; five grains of Hydrarg.

  15. The pharmacopeial tincture may be given in doses of five to fifteen minims, and the infusion has the unusually small dose of two to four drachms--the dose of other infusions being an ounce or more.

  16. The tincture contains a fair proportion of both digitalin and digitoxin.

  17. Even the more frivolous and equivocal songs have a tincture of this pensiveness.

  18. And the Figwort is so named in allusion to its curative virtues against piles, when the plant is made into an ointment for outward use, and when the tincture is taken internally.

  19. The medicinal tincture of Dandelion is made from the entire plant, gathered in summer, employing proof spirit which dissolves also the resinous parts not soluble in water.

  20. A teaspoonful of the tincture is a sufficient dose with one or two tablespoonfuls of cold water, three times in the day.

  21. Likewise, a medicinal tincture is made (H.

  22. The ripe fruit, from which a medicinal tincture is prepared, furnishes euonymin, a golden resin, which is purgative and emetic.

  23. In fuller doses this tincture will provoke a determination of blood to the head, with bleeding from the nose, and sometimes with a disposition to immoderate laughter.

  24. The doses are of the powdered bark from ten to twenty grains; of the oil from one to five drops; of the tincture from half to one teaspoonful, and of the distilled water from one to two tablespoonfuls.

  25. Of the medicinal tincture made from the bark with spirit [532] of wine, a dose of from five to ten drops may be taken with water in the same way.

  26. When the action of the heart is laboured and feeble through lack of nervous power, muscarin, or the tincture of Fly Agaric, in a much diluted potency will relieve this trouble.

  27. From five to ten drops of this tincture should be given for a dose with a tablespoonful of cold water.

  28. The dose of the powder is from ten to twenty grains; of the tincture from a third of a teaspoonful to a teaspoonful, in water hot or cold; of the syrup from one to two teaspoonfuls in water.

  29. Addison says in Cato: "'Tis not a set of features or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire.

  30. Here he uses the word complexion as something distinct from "tincture of the skin.

  31. The Jewish tincture had never been abated even, much less worked out.

  32. The Roman tincture was patent in the letter, but the Jewish manner, Jewish penetration, and the Essenic coldness were strong and unaltered.

  33. The beauties of their face were rather eclipsed by the smut of the anvil; or, in poetical phrase, the tincture of the forge had taken possession of those lips, which might have been taken by the kiss.

  34. The cameleon is said to receive a tincture from the colour of the object that is nearest him; but the human mind in reality receives a bias from its connections.

  35. The people were ill prepared for resistance, and the government menaced them with the greatest severities, the instructions of Carnot to the military having a strong tincture of his ancient education in the school of terror.

  36. Not so the second Chamber; for, notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the Imperialists, their reply bore a strong tincture of the sentiments of the opposite party.

  37. It is unnecessary to speak of the merits of the original, which is familiar to all who have the slightest tincture of German literature.

  38. For port-wine flavor, tincture of the seeds of raisins.

  39. Tis a wonder how speedily it extracts the tast and tincture of the spice.

  40. Which I conceive to be the more probable, for that the sap of the oak is of an unkind tincture to most trees.

  41. The gunsmiths in Philadelphia use a mixed solution of sulphate of copper, tincture of the muriate of iron, and sweet spirit of nitre.

  42. The dry substances are pulverized very fine, and mixed intimately together, and the oil of lemon and tincture of amber then added.

  43. The best preparations for these purposes are, a strong infusion made from the dry leaves in water (which is much superior to one from the green herb) or rather a tincture or extract prepared with rectified spirit.

  44. It is the capital ingredient in the bitter wine; and a tincture and infusion of it are kept in the shops.

  45. Instead of the extract, a tincture has been made of the dried leaves macerated in six times their weight of spirit of wine, and forty drops given for a dose.

  46. The most efficacious preparations of them are, the distilled oil, and a tincture or extract made with rectified spirit.

  47. Proof-spirit dissolves almost the whole into a turbid liquor; the tincture in rectified spirit is transparent.

  48. Some recommend a tincture of it drawn with wine; but neither wine, water, nor spirit, extract its virtues.

  49. A tincture drawn with proof-spirit contains the whole virtue of the Hellebore, and seems to be one of the best preparations of it: this tincture, and the extract, used to be kept in the shops.

  50. Separate all sick animals and wash mouths with one part Pratts Disinfectant to 100 parts water, or one-half teaspoonful of tincture of aloes and myrrh.

  51. Remove the tumor by surgical means or paint daily with tincture of iodine.

  52. Another remedy is two fluid drams of tincture of kino three times daily.

  53. Give one-half ounce of tincture of belladonna every six hours.

  54. Another remedy is one ounce of sulphuric ether and one ounce tincture of opium in a pint of warm water.

  55. I answered that I could not believe that so small a quantity of Tincture could transform so large a mass of lead.

  56. For each gallon of water, use 4 water-purifying tablets, or 12 drops of tincture of iodine, or 8 drops of liquid chlorine bleach.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tincture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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