noun

• Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
  "[O]ur daintie dames and fine ladies have begun to ſet their mind upon this colour [amber], and have placed it in the third ranke of rich tincture: vvhereby vve may ſee there is no ſuperfluitie and diſorder in the vvorld, but it hath a pretence and cloake of ſome precious name or other."
• Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
  "'Tis not a Sett of Features, or Complexion, / The Tincture of a Skin, that I admire. / Beauty ſoon grovvs familiar to the Lover, / Fades in his Eye, and palls upon the Senſe."
• Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
  "[A]fter the firſt comming of Hengiſt they had liued here C.L. yeers by the cõmon account vvithout tincture of true religion: […]"
• Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.

verb

• (transitive)
  "[T]hey are rich habilimented, their heads rounded vvith a golden caule: their cheekes tinctured vvith Vermillion, their noſes and eares hung vvith Ievvels of price and bigneſſe, and about their faces (tied to the chin) a rope of orient pearle of exceeding value, if not counterfeit: […]"
• (transitive)
  "Of fulgent beautie; but ſo pure a mind, / As if tinctur'd from Heaven, and ſo devin'd."
• (transitive)
  "Fill a glass jar full of plant matter, leaving an inch of space. (I prefer to tincture each herb separately and mix combinations as I need them.) Completely cover plants with 100-proof vodka, brandy, or vinegar and secure the lid tightly."
• (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
  "The portrait of the Author, prefixed, is engraved from a drawing by another of his friends, done from memory; it is like, but a likeneſs that tinctures of the prejudice of friendſhip."