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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.

A hideous or confused noise; an uproar. [Obs.] Howell.

A certain old dance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

The wren. [Prov. Eng.]

Having or making the sound of a bell; tinkling.

A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. Poe.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular. De Quincey.

A bell; also, a set or combination of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.

An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.

Same as Ferrotype.

A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of thi…

A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.

To engrave in mezzotint.

One who engraves in mezzotint.

Mezzotint.

ies of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

Restraint; stoppage. [Obs.]