(tint) noun
1. A variety of color; tincture; specifically, a tendency toward or slight admixture of a different color; tinge: red with a blue tint.
2. A gradation or shading of a color made by dilution with white to lessen its chroma and saturation.
3. Any color having a brilliance higher than that of median gray.
4. In engraving, an effect of light, shade, texture, etc., produced by the spacing of lines or by hatching.
5. An impression from a block bearing a design to be printed in a faint color as a background: used on checks as a safeguard against erasure.
—v.t.
1. To give a tint to; tinge.
2. In engraving, to form a tint upon. See synonyms under STAIN. [Alter. of TINCT;? infl. in form by Ital. tinta color]
—tint′er noun

(tint) Scot.
Past tense and past participle of TINE².