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▪ I. tingle, n.1 techn.|ˈtɪŋg(ə)l| Also 4–5 tyngyl, -il, 6 tyngle. [Cognate with MHG. zingel ‘little tack, little hook’ (Lexer), of which the LG. form would be tingel. App. f. the same verbal stem ting-, teng- as in tinger1 + instrumental suffix -el: see -le suffix 1. The original sense was thus ‘that which fastens’, a name susceptible of many applications.] 1. A very small kind of nail; the smallest size of tack. Usually tingle nail (also tingle sprig).
[1288Bosham Acc. (Sussex) in Rogers Agric. & Pr. I. 472/4 Tingle 750 {at} /1½.] 1377–8Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 587 In D.C. tyngylnaile empt. pro fenestr. in granario, xij d. [1415York Acc. in Rogers Agric. & Pr. III. 447/4 Tingle nail 4 m 3 c {at} 1/-.] 1449–50Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 239 CCma del Tyngilnaill. 1582Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) II. 67, vj hondert hetche naills 3/-, xv hondert latt brods 6/-, xij hondreth tyngle naills 5/-. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 194 The smallest tingle nails of about a quarter of an inch. 1886G. R. Sims in Daily News 4 Dec. 5/6 The smallest [nails], which he calls ‘tingles’, he can buy a farthing's worth of. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Tingles, also called tacks. 2. a. A strip of metal bent into an S shape, forming a clip to support heavy panes of glass on roofs; also, a strip of lead turned up at one end, used in replacing slates; also, a strip of lead bent in the middle, of which the lower half is nailed to the board, while the upper half forms a core on which the edges of two contiguous sheets of lead are folded together, to form a close joint.
1884Spon's Mechanic's own Bk. (1886) 627 Tingle for fixing Ridge. 1887Notes Building Constr. (Rivingtons) 420 When [the roof panes] are large and heavy, any tendency for them to slip down is prevented by hanging the tail of each on to the head of the pane below by means of a zinc or copper tingle. Ibid. (1901) 218 The ends of two adjacent sheets are turned up against one another..; the two are then bent over together to form a roll... Between the ends of the two sheets so treated is a ‘clip’ or ‘tingle’..a narrow strip of lead, of which about 2 inches is nailed to the boards. b. A sheet of metal, usu. copper, used for making temporary repairs on a small wooden boat when it has been holed.
1909in Webster. 1932F. B. Cooke Cruising Chats xxv. 228 The best material for a tingle is a piece of thin sheet lead. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze ix. 222 Plans should never be regarded as immutable. If they leak when first floated, it is no good patching them up until they are all tingles and no hull: scrap and start again. 1969Beaver Spring 30/2 It has been suggested that these pieces [of sheet copper] may be nothing more than a tingle or patch on a ship's boat. 3. Bricklaying. A small loop of string attached at intervals to a bricklayer's line, to keep it horizontal and prevent sag. The tingles (Sc. latchets) are supported on bricks laid at intervals along the course, and kept in place by laying another brick upon each. (In some handbooks the name tingle is erroneously given to the supporting bricks.)
1886H. C. Seddon Builder's Work 43 To prevent sagging, if the line be long, it must be carefully propped at intervals..by..tingles. ▪ II. ˈtingle, n.2 [f. tingle v. Cf. WFlem. tingel nettle.] An act, instance, or condition of tingling. a. A tingling or tinkling sound. Also advb. or without construction, as imitation of the sound. b. A tingling sensation in the ears, or in some other part of the body; the tingling action of cold, etc.
a1700in O.H.S. Collect. IV. 183 Tingle, tingle, tingle Says the little bell att 9 To call the beerers home. 1841Hood Tale Trumpet xxxviii, That like the bell With muffins to sell, Her ear was kept in a constant tingle! 1848Lowell Fable for Critics 1557 A Leyden-jar always full⁓charged, from which flit The electrical tingles of hit after hit. 1879Beerbohm Patagonia iv. 49 The wind was just cold enough to give that exciting tingle to the blood which influences one's spirits like a subtile wine. 1906Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 6/4 A tingle of regret runs through me that I have lost my good manners. 1908Blackw. Mag. Oct. 682/2 One feels the tingle of the morning air. ▪ III. tingle, n.3 [Abbrev. of whelk-tingle s.v. whelk1 d.] Any of several marine molluscs, esp. the rough tingle, Ocenebra erinacea, the smooth tingle, Nucella lapillus, or the American tingle, Urosalpinx cinerea, all of which bore holes in the shells of oysters and other molluscs.
1930Essex Naturalist XXII. 299 In the autumn of 1928 samples of living tingles dredged in the River Blackwater were forwarded to me. 1959Times 25 Aug. 5/6 The investigation was designed to control the tingles. 1974P. R. Walne Culture of Bivalve Molluscs vi. 125 The introduction of the American slipper limpet..and the American tingle..on to the south-east coast of England..are well-documented examples. ▪ IV. tingle, v.|ˈtɪŋg(ə)l| Also 4–5 tyngle, 6 tingil, tincgle. [app. in origin a modification of tinkle v.1 (in both branches), for which it is substituted in some MSS. of the second Wycliffite version: cf. crinkle, cringle. It has the form of a frequentative of ting v. and n.1, and has prob. in later use (in branch II) been associated with that group, but is found earlier.] I. 1. intr. Said of the ears: To be affected with a ringing or thrilling sensation at the hearing of anything. Cf. ring v.2 5. Perh. the original notion was ‘to ring or resound in response to a loud noise’; but it was very early applied to the result of hearing something mentally shocking or painful, without any reference to sound.
1388Wyclif 2 Kings xxi. 12 Yuelis..that who euer herith, bothe hise eeris tyngle [1382 tynclyn; 1388 v.r. tyncle or ringe]. 1581Mulcaster Positions x. (1887) 57 To much shrilnesse straynes the head [of the speaker], causeth the temples pante,..the eyes to swell, the eares to tingle. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 585, Least I cause good and learned mens eares to tingle at his leud and vnseemely rimes. 1623Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. §11 A judgement which would make a mans eare to tingle again. 1715Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. v. 133 Imprecations, which the Ears of sober Heathens would tingle at. 1847L. Hunt Jar Honey x. (1848) 141 His ears tingled, his head turned giddy. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) I. ix. 355 Senators and knights retuned to Rome, their ears tingling with his compliments. b. Said also of the cheeks under the influence of shame, indignation, or the like. (Here there is no notion of sound, but only of the sensation caused by the rush of blood to the cheeks.)
1555in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. i. 163 So that thy swoln cheeks shal even tingle at the hearing. 1779F. Burney Diary 3 Nov., Miss Burney, do not your cheeks tingle? 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. v. 129 This would have made an English Protestant's cheek tingle with indignation. 2. Of other parts of the body: To be thrilled by a peculiar stinging or smarting sensation, physical or emotional; to smart, thrill, vibrate; also fig. of inanimate things, companies or bodies of persons, etc.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxvii. (Bodl. MS.), A tokene of venym..ȝif he..dreueleþ and þe lippes.. smarten and tinglen. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. lvii. (1814) 214 The stroke lyght on a grete rocke soo rudely, that his handes tynger [? tyngel] so sore therwith. 1664Pepys Diary 3 Sept., My blood tingles and itches..all over my body. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 147 The pale Boy-Senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxiii, Wounds tingle most when they are about to heal. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 273 Your lungs tingle pleasantly as you draw [the cold air] in. 1878T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 124 His conscience begins to tingle. 1884Times 13 Feb. 11/4 All England tingles with the pain of the blow. 1898W. Watson Ode in May i, And Earth, unto her leaflet tips, Tingles with the Spring. b. Predicated of that which causes the sensation: To thrill, vibrate; to pass with a thrill.
1819Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. i. 133 It tingles through the frame As lightning tingles, hovering ere it strike. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xvi, Every note..tingled through his huge frame. 1865Kingsley Herew. vii, Hereward..felt the lust of battle tingling in him from head to heel. 1875Lowell Under Old Elm i. i. 4 The boy feels deeper meanings thrill his ear, That tingling through his pulse life-long shall run. 3. trans. To cause to tingle; to affect with a thrilling, smarting, or stinging sensation (physical or mental); to sting, excite, stimulate. (Cf. L. auriculas tinnīre to tingle or tickle the ears; also WFlem. tingelen to sting as a nettle, or like the cold.)
1572L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. (1592) 49 Small spotts..which will..tingle & trouble you like Nettles. 1607Dekker & Webster Hist. Sir T. Wyatt Wks. 1873 III. 106 That picture should haue power to tingle Loue In Royall brests. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 310 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood. 1875Lowell Fight Concord Bridge iii, That I might praise her in rhyme Would tingle your eyelids to tears. 1892Mrs. Oliphant Marr. Elinor III. xxxvii. 63 It tingled her to her very fingers' ends. b. absol. or intr.
1872Beecher Lect. Preach. ix. 178 Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on if you want to tingle. 1883E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Jan. 199 Pepper-woods, whose leave..tingle upon the tongue like curry. II. 4. intr. To make a continued light ringing sound: nearly = tinkle v.1 2. Now rare or spec. as in quots. 1771, 1906.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xii. (Bodl. MS.), Wiþ betinge of bacyns, trillinge and tingelinge þei [bees] beþ icomforted and icleped to þe huyues. c1450Wyclif's Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 1 (MS. Arundel 104), Y am maad as bras sownynge, or a cymbal tinglinge [other MSS. tynkynge, once tynclynge]. a1535Sir T. More in Grose, etc. Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 654 Clerck he was in Wellis, Where tingle a great many belles. a1652Brome Queen's Exch. ii. ii, The great Bells of our Town, they tingle they tangle. 1771N. Nicholls Corr. w. Gray (1843) 144 Little bells of different tones perpetually tingling for the elevation of the host. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) x. lx, A little shrill bell..that..keeps tingling. 1820Mair Tyro's Dict. (ed. 10) 385 Tinnio,..to tinkle or tingle. 1906‘Baroness Orczy’ Son of People xvi, When the little bell had ceased to tingle, few heads dared as yet to look towards the altar. 5. trans. To cause (a bell) to ring lightly; to ring (a bell, a chime, etc.). Now rare.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II ccxlvi, Hee..tingles out A Chime. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. ciii. (1783) III. 234 He..gave the usual signal..by tingling a bell. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Macbeth i, I'd thank her to tingle her bell. 1843J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet v. 122 We might as weel get the town-crier and gaur him tingle his bell. b. to tingle bees: to charm or influence bees by a tingling or metallic sound: cf. ting v. 1 b.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV cccxxviii, As you may tingle Bees Hee charmes the gaddings of opinion. |