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▪ I. tint, n.1|tɪnt|
[app. altered from the earlier tinct, which may already have been so pronounced; but It. tinta tint, hue, may have influenced the technical use in painting.]
1. a. A colour, hue, usually slight or delicate; a tinge; esp. one of the several lighter or deeper shades or varieties, or degrees of intensity, of the same colour: see quots. 1848–79 in sense 2.
1717Pope Epist. to Mr. Jervas 5 Whether thy hand strike out some free design,..Or blend in beauteous tint the colour'd mass. 1754Gray Pleasure 42 Chastised by sabler tints of woe. 1798Wordsw. Thorn v, Ah me! what lovely tints are there Of olive green and scarlet bright. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxxvi. 387 Exhibiting all the variety of tints that indicates the changes of combustion. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 516 It is nearly colourless, having only a slight tint of yellow. 1878Dale Lect. Preach. v. 128 Autumn tints of brown and gold.
b. fig. in various senses; esp. Quality, character, kind; a slight imparted or modifying character, a ‘tinge’ of something.
1760Sterne Serm. xix, Each one lends it something of its own complexional tint and character. 1768― Sent. Journ., Passport, Hotel at Paris, Liberty!.. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle. 1817Byron Manfred iii. ii, Our inborn spirits have a tint of thee. 1825Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 114 His virtue was of the purest tint. 1901Empire Rev. I. 369 In New South Wales..free trade was the dominant tint [at the election].
c. Hairdressing. An artificial colouring, less permanent than a dye, applied to enhance the colour of the hair; an application of this.
1921[see tinter d]. 1957Encycl. Brit. VI. 496a/2 The tint..is only temporary and is not a dye in the true sense. 1979‘M. Hebden’ Pel & Faceless Corpse x. 109 What is it you wanted? Tint? Shampoo? Or a cut?
2. spec.
a. Painting: see quots. middle tint, prime tint: see middle a. 6, prime a. 9 a.
1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty xiii. 179 Light and shades..become, as it were, our materials, of which ‘prime tints’ are the principal. By these I mean the fixed and permanent colours of each object, as the green of trees, &c. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. v. (1848) 183 The middle tint, or intermediate passage between the two masses of light and dark. 1848Wornum ibid. 211 note, Although there are but three primitive colours, painters have nine. These are yellow, red, blue,..orange, purple, green,..russet, olive, citrine... All other gradations of colour are mere tints of the above; dark or light, according as they are mixed with black or white, or according to the proportions in which they are compounded. Thus the variety of tints is infinite. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 8 note, Tints differ from each other in being simply lighter or darker, but hues differ in colour. Ibid., In ordinary usage, however, by ‘tints’ we frequently mean colours generally, and the word is often substituted for ‘hues’. 1879Pole in Nature 6 Nov. 15/2 note, In technical language mixtures of a colour with white are called tints, with black, shades.
b. Engraving. The effect produced by a series of fine parallel lines more or less closely drawn so as to produce an even and uniform shading.
crossed tint, one produced by lines crossing at right angles. ruled tint, one produced by a single series of parallel lines. safety tint, that used on bills of exchange, cheques, etc., either as a ground of the whole surface, or specially on the parts which have to be completed in writing, as a security against alterations.
1880Print. Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 6 Worked in black, and light tints, on a stone coloured paper.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tint work; tint-block, a block of wood or metal hatched with fine parallel lines suitable for printing tints; tint-drawing, drawing in diluted shades of various colours, or in one colour so that the gradations are produced by washes of pigment; tint-tool, an implement used for hatching or graving a tint-block.
1869Eng. Mech. 10 Dec. 298/3 Tint-tools. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 147/1 The parallel lines forming an even and uniform tint, as in the representation of a clear sky, are obtained by what is called the tint-tool. 1884St. James' Gaz. 24 Oct. 7/1 Mr. Linton..draws an emphatic distinction between wood-cutting..and wood-engraving, or white-line tint-work. 1897Daily News 23 Apr. 6/5 He..is seen to most advantage in tint works, such as the View over Romney Marsh.
▪ II. tint, n.2 dial.
[Origin uncertain: perh. two different words.
In sense 1 tint may be a variant of tent dial., lit. ‘trial’, f. L. tentare to try. It is also possible that tint in sense 2, quot. 1886, has the same origin (quasi ‘not a taste, not a trace’); but it is very doubtful whether this origin can be assumed for quot. a 1225.]
1. ? A trial, taste, touch; a foretaste; a trace, indication (of anything). Sc.
1768Ross Helenore iii. 122 Great search for her was made, baith far an' near, But tint nor tryal never cud appear. 1878W. Thom in Whistle Binkie (1890) II. 44 The half-ta'en kiss..Is, heaven kens, fu' sweet amen's, An' tints o' heaven here. 1887Suppl. to Jamieson, Tint, proof, evidence, indication; forecast, foretaste; ‘The beast's awa, and ye'll ne'er get tint or wittins o't'.
2. After negative: (Not) a bit, particle, atom.
[a1225Leg. Kath. 1254 Þæt nefde hare nan tunge to tauelin a tint wið.] 1886Rosa Mulholland Marcella Grace xii, We haven't had a tint o' milk these three days.
▪ III. tint, ppl. a. Now only Sc. and north. dial.|tɪnt|
[pa. pple. of tine v.2]
Lost.
a1340Hampole Psalter xvii. 18 Bot if ȝe lefe ȝoure syn and doe penaunce ȝe be tynt men. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (Andreas) 438 How þe tynt sawlis of al men War brocht to þe restorynge Of þe croice. c1500Kennedy Passion of Christ 214 Lord and King, Send fra þe hevin the tynt man to recure. a1584Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 816 Tint tyme we may not get again. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. iii, But we're nae sooner fools to give consent, Than we our daffin, and tint power repent.
▪ IV. tint, v.|tɪnt|
[f. tint n.1]
a. trans. To impart a tint to; to colour, esp. slightly or with delicate shades; to tinge. Also absol.
1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, The sun at length tinted the eastern clouds and the tops of the highest hills. 1833J. Rennie Alph. Angling 22 Silken or hempen lines may be tinted by a decoction of oak bark. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 106 The sun..still tinted the clouds with red and purple. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxvii, The beautiful colours of August tinting the great masses of rock. 1893Westm. Gaz. 28 Feb. 3/1, I can't call him a painter at all. A man of marvellous imagination, a surprising flow of lovely fancies—but a painter, no! He merely tints.
fig.1799A. Seward Sonn. i. Poet. Wks. 1810 III. 122 No more young Hope tints with her light and bloom The darkening scene. 1861Holland Less. Life v. 72 All truth is tinted by the medium through which it passes.
b. techn. (See quot.)
1857Youmans Handbk. Househ. Sc. §161 By the addition of black the red is said to be shaded, by the addition of white it is tinted.
c. intr. for pass. To become tinted or coloured.
1892Pict. World 7 May 32/3 The forced leaves..begin to tint in about three hours.
d. trans. Hairdressing. To colour (the hair) with a tint. See tint n.1 1 c.
1921[implied at tinter d]. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 149/2 Tint, to dye. The word tint, used for dye, is one of the many euphemisms employed in the hairdressing craft. 1977A. Morice Scared to Death xvii. 119 I'm going a bit grey... So I have it tinted three or four times a year.
Hence ˈtintable a. [-able], capable of being tinted.
1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 18 Apr. (K mart Advts. Suppl.) 10 Washable latex acrylic is tintable to hundreds of colors! 1979Chatelaine (Canada) Jan. 95/2 (Advt.), The bifocals with no lines. They're featherweight and tintable.
▪ V. tint
obs. f. tent n.4; pa. tense of tine v.2 |