Tint /(?)/

Tint

n.
  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color.
    Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass.
    Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline.
    — Harte.
  3. 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.
  4. A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines. (Engraving)

Phrases & Compounds
Tint tool
a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.

Tint

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Tinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinting

  1. To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.