tint

A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.

A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.

A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.

A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.

A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.

A dye for the hair.

To give a tint to or take on a tint.

A Scotch preterit of tine.

A variety of a color, especially and properly a luminous variety of low chroma; also, abstractly, the respect in which a color may be varied by more or less admixture of white light, which at once increases the luminosity and diminishes the chroma.

In engraving, a series of parallel lines cut upon a wood block with a tint-tool, so as to produce an even and uniform shading, as in clear skies.