n.
- a shade or variety of colour.
▸a trace of something.
- the process or dye used in artificial colouring of the hair.
- Printing an area of faint colour printed as a half-tone.
▸a set of parallel engraved lines giving uniform shading.
v.
colour slightly; tinge.
▸dye (hair) with a tint.
Derivative
Etymology
C18: alt. (perh. influenced by Ital. tinta) of obs. tinct ‘to colour, tint’, from L. tinctus ‘dyeing’.