tint1 (tint)

t. [ Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! Byron, Bride of Abydos, ii. 20. Tinted paper, paper having a more or le light uniform shade of some color, imparted to it either in the proce of manufacture or by subsequent treatment. tint2 (tint). A Scotch preterit of tine2 . tintage (tin'tāj), n. [ tint1 + -age .] The coloring or shading of anything; state or condition as to color. [Rare.] The unvarying tintage , all shining greens and hazy blues. Living stone's Life Work , p. 375. tintamart, tint am arret (tin-ta-mär'), n. [F. tintamarre (= Wall. titamar ), a confused noise; origin obscure.] A confused noise; an uproar. tintamar The tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. Poe , The Bells. tintinnabulous (tin-ti-nab'ū-lus), a. [ I, and many others who suffered much from his [the college porter's] tintinnabulous propensities,. have forgiven him. De Quincey, Opium Eater, p. 84. tintinnabulum (tin-ti-nab'ū-lum), n.; pl. tin tinnabula (-lä). [ tintinnabulum , a bell (cf. ML. tintinnüm, OF. tantan , a cow-bell), tin tinnare, ring, clink, jangle, redupl. of tinnire, tinire, ring, tinkle: see tinnient, ting1.] 1. A bell; specifically, a grelot: especially applied to such an object of antique Roman origin.2. A rattle formed of small bells or small plates of metal. Tintinnidæ (tin-tin'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., The cucular surface is more or le completely clothed with fine vibratile cilia. Genera besides the type are Tintinnidium, Vasicola, and Stromb i dino psis. Usually written Tintinnodæ. Tintinnus (tin-tin'us), n. [NL. (Schrank, 1803), scope display great agility. There are many species, such as T. inquilinus.