tinction
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin tinctiō (“a soaking, dipping”).
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Noun
[edit]tinction (plural tinctions)
- A stain; a preparation for staining.
- 1888, Frank Seaver Billings, Swine plague, page 108:
- […] not color as well as at others, even when fresh covering-glass specimens are made and exactly the same tinctions used.