untinctured

noun

1. Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
2. a slight infusion, as of some element or quality: A tincture of education had softened his rude manners.
3. a trace; a smack or smattering; tinge: a tincture of irony.
4. Heraldry. any of the colors, metals, or furs used for the fields, charges, etc., of an escutcheon or achievement of arms.
5. a dye or pigment.

verb (used with object), tinc·tured, tinc·tur·ing.

6. to impart a tint or color to; tinge.
7. to imbue or infuse with something.

noun

1. pharmacol a medicinal extract in a solution of alcohol
2. a tint, colour, or tinge
3. a slight flavour, aroma, or trace
4. any one of the colours or either of the metals used on heraldic arms
5. obsolete a dye or pigment

verb

6. (tr) to give a tint or colour to

n.c.1400, from Latin tinctura “act of dyeing or tingeing,” from tinctus “dye,” past participle of tingere “to tinge, dye, moisten, soak,” from PIE root *teng- “to soak” (cf. Old High German dunkon “to soak,” Greek tengein “to moisten”). Meaning “solution of medicine in a mixture of alcohol” is first recorded 1640s. The verb is recorded from 1610s. n.

1. A coloring or dyeing substance.
2. An alcohol solution of a nonvolatile medicine.