Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tint"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tint \Tint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tinting}.]
To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tint \Tint\, n. [For older tinct, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of
tingere to dye: cf. F. teinte, teint, It. tinta, tinto. See
{Tinge}, and cf. {Taint} to stain, a stain, {Tent} a kind of
wine, {Tinto}.]
A slight coloring. Specifically:
(a) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass.
--Pope.
Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline.
--Harte.
(b) A color considered with reference to other very similar
colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two
shades of scarlet are different tints.
(c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition
of many fine parallel lines.
{Tint tool} (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the
parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tint
n : a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a
primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade
of pink that she wanted" [syn: {shade}, {tincture}, {tone}]
v : dye with a color [syn: {tinct}, {bepaint}, {tinge}, {touch}]
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