■ noun
1》 a shade or variety of colour.
↘a trace of something.
2》 the process or dye used in artificial colouring of the hair.
3》 Printing an area of faint colour printed as a half-tone.
↘a set of parallel engraved lines giving uniform shading.
■ verb colour slightly; tinge.
↘dye (hair) with a ~.
Derivatives
~er noun
Origin
C18: alt. (perh. influenced by Ital. ~a ) of obs. tinct 'to colour, ~', from L. tinctus 'dyeing'.