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▪ I. tingling, vbl. n.|ˈtɪŋglɪŋ|
[f. tingle v. + -ing1.]
The action or condition expressed by the verb tingle, in its various senses.
I.
1. The ringing of the ears; a thrilling or unpleasant tickling of the ear.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xii. (Bodl. MS.), Warmod istamped with boles lyuoure & ido into þe eres destruyeþ ringinge and tingelinge þat is þerein. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 93 For the tingling of the ears, take with this gall the Oyl of Roses. 1611Bp. Hall Impresse of God i. Wks. (1624) 442 Ten times..is the same word dually used; for Cymbals; and the Verbe of this root [tsalal, to tinkle, tingle, vibrate, quiver] is the same, whereby God would expresse the tingling of the eares.
2. A thrilling, stinging, or smarting sensation; an emotion likened to this, a thrill.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lvi. (Bodl. MS.), Tyngling and fleting in þe riggebone and aboute þe schuldres. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xi. xiii. (1886) 162 The tingling in the finger, the elbowe, the toe. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 129. 1653 W. G. Bacon's Hist. Winds, etc. 222 Also sharp and violent cold produceth a kinde of tingling, like unto burning. 1658A. Fox Würtz' Surg. iii. xxiii. 293 When that member felt a tickling or tingling, it was a sign of healing. 1769Priestley in Phil. Trans. LIX. 62 The explosion..gave it [my hand] a violent jar, the effect of which remained, in a kind of tingling. 1843Lever J. Hinton xxxiii, Feeling a kind of tingling of shame. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Uses Gt. Men Wks. (Bohn) I. 279 We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 705 Numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes.
II.
3. A continued light ringing sound of a small bell or the like; nearly = tinkling vbl. n. 2.
1398[see tingle v. 4]. a1533Frith Disput. Purgat. (1829) 134 St. Dominic's box (which hath such power, that as soon as the tingling is heard in the box, so soon the soul is free in heaven). 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 53 They were wont..to keep a whooping and halowing,..and blowing of horns, and tingling of bels. 1817Lady Morgan France i. (1818) I. 92 We were awakened..by the noise of hammering, and the tingling of bells. a1828H. Neele Lit. Rem. (1829) 219 And distant tinglings mingled with the lay.
▪ II. ˈtingling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That tingles: see the verb, in its various senses.
1. Thrilling; stinging, smarting (as with cold); quivering, vibrating.
1716Gay Trivia ii. 336 The harness'd Chairman..Swings, around his Waste, his tingling Hands. 1735Somerville Chase i. 361 Quick Pleasures sting Their tingling Nerves. 1751Cambridge Scribleriad v. 20 The Scratching-stick with which the Seer subdued The tingling tumults of his boiling blood. 1842Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 199 A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxvi, She felt a tingling shame at the words of ignominy she had cast at Tito.
2. Ringing lightly, as a small bell; tinkling; jingling.
c1450[see tingle v. 4]. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 63 A confused masse of words, with a tingling sound of ryme. 1651Burton's Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iii. 300 Bees..when they hear any tingling [earlier edd. tinkling] sound, will tarry behinde. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo I. 73 Their tingling shrill sound is like a Voice.
Hence ˈtinglingly adv., (a) in a way that makes some part of the body tingle; (b) quiveringly, tremulously; ticklishly, delicately.
1889Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 397 Lest..the sanctity of the Sabbath [should] be impressed tinglingly on me. 1905Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 10/1 He [Shakes.'s Rich. II] is so nicely balanced, so tinglingly poised. |