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Substantiivi

1. Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
2. (obsolete) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic.
3. A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
4. (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
5. (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
6. The act of colouring or dyeing.
7. A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.
8. A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
9. (Christianity) Synonym of baptism.
10. Scientific and alchemical senses.
11. (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
12. (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
13. An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
14. A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
15. (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.

Verbi

1. (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
2. (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
3. (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
4. (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.