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Tint n. 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.
Tint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinting.] To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
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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]