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To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged…

Having the power to tinge. [R.] As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.

One who, or that which, tinges.

To touch lightly. [Obs.] Coles.

See Contingency.

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency." J. Gregory.

t certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke.

In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.

ngs. Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.

t one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by acc…

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal…

To tinge or dye with a purple color.

s laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

injure; to have the property of so doing. At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Prov. xxiii. 32.

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.

next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. Woodward.