tinglaze (tin glaz)

A special form of glaze for fine pottery, having an oxid of tin as a basis. tingle (ting'gl), v.; pret. and pp. tingled, ppr. tingling. [Early mod. E. also tingil; I. in trans. 1. To make a succe ion of clear ringing sounds; jingle; tinkle. Levins. A confused ma e of words, with a tingling sound of ryme, barely accompanied with reason. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 2. To have a prickling or stinging sensation, as with cold; experience a sensation of thrills or slight prickly pains, as from a sudden tremu lous excitement of the nerves. I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle . 1 Sam. iii. 11. Renewing oft his poor attempts to beat His tingling fingers into gathering heat. Crabbe, Works, II. 5. Her palms were tingling for the touch Of other hands, and ever over-much Her feet seemed light. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 238. His arms and fingers tingled as if "asleep." J. M. Car no chan , Operative Surgery, p. 235. 3. To cause a tingling sensation; act so as to produce a prickling or thrilling effect. ears. Those last words of Mrs. Good enough's tingled in her Mrs. Gaskell , Wives and Daughters, lix. Brokers slid about with whisper, glance, and shrug, wondering whether a thrill of sympathetic depre ion would tingle along the stock of competing lines. weed. tinker (ting'ker), n. [ been regarded as the lowest order of craftsmen, and their occupation has been often pursued, especially by gipsies, as a mere cover for vagabondage. How sweet the bells ring now the nuns are dead, That sound at other times like tinkers ' pans! Marlowe, Jew of Malta, iv. 1. IMG:content-0462.png:[blocks in formation] Another itinerant, who seems in some degree to have rivalled the lower cla es of the jugglers, was the tinker ; and accordingly he is included with them and the minstrels in the act against vagrants established by the autinkle2+ (ting'kl), v. i. To tinker. thority of Queen Elizabeth. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 326. B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. Who tinkles then, or personates Tom Tinker? tinkler (ting'kler), n. [ 2. The act of mending, especially metal-work; the doing of the work of a tinker.- 3. A botch- er; a bungler; an unskilful or clumsy worker; tinker; hence, a vagabond; a craven. one who makes bungling attempts at making or mending something; also, a "jack of all trades," not nece arily unskilful.-4. An awkward or unskilful effort to do something; a tinkering attempt; a botch; a bungle. For Huntly and Sinclair, they both play'd the tinkler . Battle of Sheriff - Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 161). They must speak their mind about it [anything which seems to be going wrong], and spend their time and money in having a tinker at it. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 1. 5. In ordnance , a small mortar fixed on a stake, and fired by a trigger and lanyard.-6. A small mackerel, or one about two years old; also, the chub-mackerel. See tinker mackerel , under mackerel . Young mackerel or tinkers . Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 352. 7. The silversides, a fish. See cut under silver sides.-8. A stickleback, specifically the ten spined, Gasterosteus (or Pygosteus ) pung it i us. [Local, Eng.]-9. The skate. [Prov. Eng.] 10. The razor-billed auk, Alca or Utamania torda. See cut under razorbill. [Labrador and Newfoundland.] It is known to all fishermen and eggers, as well as to the natives, by the singular name of tinker . Coues , Proc. Phila. Acad., 1861, p. 251. 11. A kind of seal. [Newfoundland.] -12. damn. See damn , n. 2. One who or that which tinkles; in slang use, a small bell. "Jerk the tinkler ." These words in plain English conveyed an injunction to ring the bell. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xv. tinkling (ting'kling), n. [ The daughters of Zion,.. mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. Isa. iii. 16. That peculiar high inharmonious noise [in music] which we are accustomed to call tinkling . Helmholtz , Sensations of Tone (trans.), p. 128. 2. A kind of blackbird, Quiscalus cra irostris, common in Jamaica: so called from its notes.