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’.