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The state of being stinted.

One who, or that which, stints.

Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Having the light and aërial tints true to nature. Elmes.

m, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. Lyttleton. At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.

color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. -- Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part. -- Body louse (Zoöl.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding),…

Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.

Having a dark tint.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt.

idges. -- Cartridge paper. (a) A thick stout paper for inclosing cartridges. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.