▪ I. † inˈtinct, n. Obs.
[ad. L. intinct-us a dipping in, sauce, f. intingĕre: see intinct v.]
A dye.
| 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 77 Which they call the green intinct of some Greeks. |
▪ II. † inˈtinct, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. intinct-us, pa. pple. of intingĕre: see next.]
Wetted, suffused.
| 13.. in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.) 139 Of a whyth corporaus..in-tync wit red wyn. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 91 The nexte day folowynge a wedrede tree intincte with his bloode wexede grene. |
▪ III. † inˈtinct, v. Obs.
[f. L. intinct-, ppl. stem of intingĕre, -guĕre to dip in, f. in- (in-2) + ting(u)ĕre to wet, moisten, dye, tinge.]
trans. To moisten, dye, suffuse.
| 1547 Boorde Brev. Health lxxxvii. 35 b, Intincte blacke wol in it and put it into the eare. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xviii. 263 His Ill-favour'd face was not easily to be intincted with a blush. |