tinchill, tinchel

[Gael. & Ir. timchioll = circuit, compa .] A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space of country, and gradually closing in, brought immense quantities of deer together so as to capture or kill them. "We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel cows the game." Scott: Lady of the Lake, vi. 17. *tinct, v . t . [ Lat. tinct us, pa. par. of tin go te dye.] [TINGE.J 1. To tinge, to stain, to dye, to spot, to tint. "March the 27th in the sealed weather-gla , when first put into water, the tincted spirit rested at 8% inches."Boyle: Works, iii. 147. 2. To imbue with a taste. "We have artificial wells made in imitation of the natural, as tincted upon vitriol, sulphur, and steel."- Bacon . *tinct, s . [TINCT, v.] 1. Stain, color, tint, dye. "Raising a world of gayer tinct and grace." Thomson: Castle of Indolence , 1. 44. 2. The grand elixir of the alchemists; tincture. "That great med'cine hath With his tinct gilded thee." Shakesp.: All's Well , v. 3. *tinct, adj . (Lat. tinct us.) Colored, tinctured, stained. "The blew in black, the greene in gray, is tinct ." Spenser: Shepherd's Calender; Nov. tinc-tör-I-al, adj . [Lat. tinct or a dyer, from tinct us , pa. par. of tin go to dye.] Pertaining to colors or dyes; imparting a color or dye. tinc'-ture, subst . [Lat. tinctura =a dyeing, from tinct us , pa. par. of tin go =to dye; Sp. & Ital. tint ura; Fr. teinture .] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: A tinge or shade of color; a color, a tint. 2. Figuratively: (1) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange-peel. (2) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge. "All manners take a tincture from our own, Or come discolor'd through our pa ions shown." Pope: Moral E ays , i. 33. II. Technically : 1. Chem.: The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a menstruum; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the menstruum. 2. Her .: The name given to the colors, metals, or tints used for the field or ground of an emblazoned shield, including the two metals or and argent, or gold and silver, the several colors, and the furs. 3. Pharm.: A colored solution of some animal or vegetable principle. Tinctures are very numerous. Garrod has a list of nearly seventy, commencing with the tincture of aconite and the tincture of aloes. Different menstrua are employed; chiefly rectified spirit, proof spirit, compound spirit of ammonia, and spirit of ether. tincture-pre , s . An apparatus for thoroughly extracting the active principles of plants, ., by submitting them to compre ion. tinc-ture, v. t. [TINCTURE, 8.] 1. Lit .: To color, to dye, to stain; to imbue or impregnate with a color or tint. "A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors." Watts. 2. Fig .: To imbue, to tinge. "It is, indeed, generally true, that the history of a mechanical art affords but insipid entertainment to a 4101 tine (3), s. [TINE (2), v.] Bot .: A wild vetch or tare; a plant that encloses or tines other plants ( Tu er ); specially Vicia hir suta , V. cracca , and Lathyrus tuberosus . *tine (1), v. t. [TIND.] To kindle. to inflame. "The clouds Jostling or push'd with winds, rude in their shock, Tine the slant lightning." Milton: P. L., x. 1,073. tinglish *tin'-foiled, adj . [English tinfoil ; ed.] Covered with tinfoil; hence, glittering, but worthle . "O Lucio, fortune's gilt Is rubbed quite off from my slight tin foiled state." Marston Antonio's Revenge, i. 2. ting (1), s. [From the sound.] A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkle; a tinkling. ting (2), s. [Chinese.) The room in a Chinese *tīne (2), v. t. [A. S. týnan.] To shut in, to temple containing the idol. inclose.