tincture

Definitions

General Science

• noun a solution of a plant extract or chemical in alcohol

Medical

• noun a medicinal substance dissolved in alcohol
• abbreviationtinct.

Slang

• noun an alcoholic drink. An adult male middle-class term, popularised by the fictional Denis Thatcher in the satirical ‘Dear Bill’ letters in Private Eye magazine in the 1980s.
• noun a tincture of cannabis; hashish in liquid form as legally prescribed to some drug users for a period in the 1960s

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Contexts for “tincture”

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