tint
tint is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A slight coloring. Specifically: -- (a) 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. (b) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints. (c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines. Tint tool (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.
- 2.To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absinthe
- and
- antique
- apple
- aquamarine
- ash-colored
- ashen
- ashy
- aureate
- beryl
- black
- blue
- bottle
- calcareous
- chiaroscuro
- cinereous
- cineritious
- citrine
- coke
- colored
- cool
- copperas
- creamy
- crocus
- dingy
- disease
- drab
- dun
- emerald
- envy
- fallow
- favillous
- flavous
- fog
- foot
- fulvid
- fulvous
- gamboge
- glaucoma
- glaucous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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