Tingitida 
<lrli,-;,l,. forms whieli ofti-ii attract attention by Tinkar'g-rOOt I ting'kar)!-ri>t ), //. Set- Tinkt-r's- 
the eiioniKius numbers in whirh they i-olli-d imil. 
!>] 'hi- Iraves of trees am I shrubs, as well as tinker (ling'ki'-r), . [< MK. tml , , ; . lit. IMP- 
by their Strange structure. The wing covers are who makes a linking sound (namely in mend- 2 - To affect bj 
lrl >, ", l t traiispareni.and niied uiih ganz.-like ing tnetiillii- ve-scNi: < link* + Cf euuiv ov ringing or ji 
meshM, and, with the aidea of Uwtbonx, project widely. 4,1.1. ,T. , ' 
Over the 1,,-a.l a hood-likc proe.-ss. also' lull of meshes, '.'"''' r '""' "'"'-' .' ''t. also \\ . l, H e,-rr,l, a tin- *" "- - 
often projects ; In some forms mm, -impie processes are ker.J 1. A mender of household utensils of 
present, and are modified _in diHeri-nt ways. They are all tin. brass. ro|iper, and iron; one who goes from 
tinning 
The s. -xt-.n ,,i Hell- M:i n K'.elli .dniil ih, Mreet. with a 
mall Bell In Ills llund, which )i< :..,'l.'h 
J. Hay, Select Remains, p. 307. 
2. To afiVi-t liy linking sounds; leail i.r draw 
r jingling. 
The rerr kirk evanished, whose small hell tinkUd the 
joyous scbonl-lHiy to woinhlp on sonny Sabbaths. 
Xoctn Ambroriaiue. Ceb., IgtZ. 
^'K;;?^ Pj 10 P 1 '"-;- ith * * appliances for St. To cause to ring or resound. 
and an disguised by a brownish exudation. There arei nt '" (il "K kettles, pang, etc. Tinkers have usually With clamorus 1 
'"" " - -'id as the lowest order of craftsmen, and their 
as been often pursued, especially by gipsies, tinkle 
rer for vagabondage. 
subfamilies. Piemiimr and Tin : iitin;r. with about S5 gen- 
era and 1 iii.spefies, or most parts of the world. Corythuca 
Is agenusof striking aspect, Iwst l-epi esented in the United 
SI ales. 
tin-glass (tin'glas), n. It. Till. 
This white lead or tingtatte hath been of long time In 
esiimali as witnesseth the Poet Homer, who call- 
eth it ( 'assiteron. This Is certeln, that two pieces of black 
lead cannot possibly be sodered together without this tin- 
:'''-' - Uolland, tr. of Pliny, xxxlv. 16. 
2. Bismuth : so called by glass-makers. 
tin-glaze (tin'glaz), A special form of glaze 
for tine pottery, having an oxid of tin as a basis. 
tingle (ting'gl), r. ; pret. and pp. tingled, ppr. 
tingling. [Early mod. E. also tingil; < ME. tin- 
glen ; var. of tinkle, or freq. of ting 1 : see tinkle.] 
1. intraiix. 1. To make a succession of clear 
ringing sounds; jingle; tinkle. Levins. 
A confused masse of words, with a tingliny sound of 
ryme, barely accompanied with reason. 
Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
2. To have a prickling or stinging sensation, 
as with cold : experience a sensation of thrills 
or slight prickly pains, as from a sudden tremu- 
lous excitement of the nerves. 
I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of 
every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1 Sam. 111. 11. 
Renewing oft his poor attempts to beat 
His tingling fingers Into gathering heat. 
Crabbe, Works, II. 5. 
Her palms were tingliny for the touch 
Of other hands, and ever over-much 
Her feet seemed light. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 238. 
I 1 is arms and fingers . . . tingled as If " asleep. " 
J. if. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 235. 
3. To cause a tingling sensation ; act so as to 
produce a prickling or thrilling effect. 
Those last words of Mrs. Ooodenough's tingled in her 
ears. Mrs. Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, llx. 
Brokers slid about with whisper, glance, and shrug, 
wondering whether a thrill of sympathetic depression 
would tingle along the stock of competing lines. 
The Centur ' 
II, trans. To cause to tingle 
[Bare.] 
I'd thank her to tingle her bell, 
As soon as she 's heated my gruel. 
.tnni.x Smith, Rejected Addresses, xviii. 
tingle (ting'gl), u. [< tingle, r.] 1. A tink or 
tinkle ; a tinkling sound. 2. A tingling sensa- 
tion ; a state of nervous prickling or thrilling. 
tinglish (ting'glish), a. [< tingle + -i*/|l.] Ca- 
pable of tingling or thrilling, as with anima- 
tion. [Rare and affected.] 
They pass : for them the panels may thrill, 
The tempera grow alive and tiiujliih. 
Browning, Old Pictures In Florence, st 29. 
tin-ground (tin 'ground), . Detritus rich 
enough in tin to be worked with profit; the 
stanniferous stratum in a stream-works. 
lamorus howling 
been regarded as the lowest order of craftsmen) and their Thee place shee tinkled. Stanihurnt, ".Kneld, 111. 
as a mere cover for vagabondage. ~" "3 l ^8^ffir.^J < J,ffL*'!__.-. 
occupation ha 
of small linking or clinking sounds; a 
jingling noise. 
The tinkle of the thirsty rill. M. Arnold, Bacchanalia. 
With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of stream 
The full world rolls In a rhythm of praise. 
W. K. Henley, Midsummer Days and Nights. 
tinkle-t (ting'kl), r. i. To tinker. 
Who tinkle* then, or personates Tom Tinker? 
/; Jonton, New Inn, i. I. 
1. A 
How sweet the bells ring now the nuns are dead. 
That sound at other times like tinken' pans I 
Marlotre, Jew of Malta, Iv. 1. 
Another itinerant, who seems In some degree to have 
rivalled the lower classes of the Jugglers, was the tinker; 
and accordingly he ls Included with them and the min- 
strels In the act against vagrants established by the au- 
thority of gin-en Elizabeth. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 320. 
2. The act of mending, especially metal-work; 
the doing of the work of a tinker. 3. A botch- tinkler (tiug'kler), H. [< tinkle + -er 1 .] 
er; a bungler; an unskilful or clumsy worker ; tinker; hence, a vagabond; a craven, 
one who makes bungling attempts at making or For Huntly and Sinclair, they both play'd the KnkUr. 
mendingsomething; also, a "jack of all trades," BoW< '/ Sheriff-Mvlr (Child's Ballads, VII. 161). 
not necessarily unskilful. 4. An awkward or 2. One who or that which tinkles; in slang use, 
unskilful effort to do something; a tinkering a small bell, 
attempt ; a botch ; a bungle. Jerk the nHw." These words In plain English con- 
They must speak their mind about it (anything which 
seems to be going wrong], . . . and spend their time and 
money In having a ii'iU-cr at It. 
T. Huyha. Tom Brown at Bugby, 1. 1. 
5. In ordnance, a small mortar fixed on a stake, 
and fired by a trigger and lanyard. 6. A small 
mackerel, or one about two years old; also, 
the chub-mackerel. See tinker mackerel, under 
. 
veyed an Injunction to ring the hell. 
Dickem, Oliver Twist, xv. 
tinkling (ting'kling), w. [< tinkle*, r.] 1. A 
tinkling noise; the sound of successive tinkx 
or clinks. 
The daughters of Zlon, . . . mincing as they go. and 
making a tinkling with their feet. Isa. III. IB. 
That peculiar high Inharmonious noise [In music) which 
we are accustomed to call tinkling. 
Helmholtz, Sensations of Tone (trans.), p. 128. 
mnekert-n . 
Young mackerel or tinken. Sei. Amer., N. 8., LIV. 882. 
7. The silversides, a fish. See cut under silver- 2 - A kind of blackbird, ^wwrflhw crwiro*/r, 
sides. 8. A stickleback, specifically the ten- ^mmon in Jamaica: so called from its notes, 
spined, Gasterosteun (or Pygosteus) piingitiux tin-liquor (tin'lik'or), n. A solution of tin in 
[Local, Eng.] 9. The skate. [Prov. Eng.] strong acid, used as a mordant in dyeing. 
10. The razor-billed auk, Alca or Utamania tinman (tin'man), .; pi. tinmen (-men). 1. A 
torda. See cut under razorbill. [Labrador and workman in tin-plate; a maker of tin vessels. 
Newfoundland.] 
It Is known ... Ui all fishermen and eggers, as well as 
to the natives, by the singular name of tinker. 
Couet, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1881, p. 261. 
11. A kind of seal. [Newfoundland.! 12 
>mpetlng lines. - A guillemot. Also tinkersnirt. [Local, Eng.] . "'J"- .o . anop 
Century, xxxvin. 20B. -Tinker's damn. See damn, n, tin-mordant (tin'mor'dant), 
ingle; ring; tinkle, tinker (ting'ker), v. [< 'tinker, .] I. trans. liquor. 
1. To repair or put to rights, as a piece of metal- ttnmouth (tin'raouth), n. A fish : same as crap- 
work. 2. To repair or put into shape rudely, !>** [Local, U. S.] 
temporarily, or as an unskilled workman : used tinned (tind). p. a. 1. Covered, overlaid, or 
in allusion to the imperfect and makeshift coated with tin : as, tinned dishes. [Eng.] 
character of ordinary work in metals: often Vse tinned tacks, as they do not rust, 
with U]>, to patch up. Paper-hanger, p. SO. 
The Victorian 
Thirty or forty years ago the tinman . . . was recog- 
nized as one of the leading and most skilful mechanics. 
Contemporary Rev., HI. 388. 
2. A dealer in tinware. 
Dld'st thou never pop 
Thy Head into a Tinman'i Shop? Prior, A simile 
Same as tin- 
irian Act has been already tinkered several 2. Packed or preserved in hermetically sealed 
times, and Is not likely to last long In its present form. tins; canned : as, tinned milk; tinned meats 
Sir C. W. Dilke, Probs. of (ireater Britain, vl. 6. w 
We were obliged to lay In a stock of tinned provisions. 
Harper'* May., L.VXVIII. 4X1. 
Tinned sheet-Iron, tin-plate Tinned wan, metal- 
ware protected by tinning : applied especially to early and 
decorative work as distinguished from tinware. 
tinnent (tin'en), . [< ME. tinneii, < AS. tinea 
= OHG. MHG. zinin (cf. G. zinnern); as tin + 
-w 2 .] Consisting of tin : made of tin. 
Thy 7V<in. ii Chariot shod with burning bosses. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. 
II. intrans. 1. To do the work of a tinker 
upon metal or the like. 2. To work generally 
in an experimental or botchy way; occupy- 
one's self with a thing carelessly or in a med- 
dlesome way : as, to tinker with the tariff. 
I will step round at once and offer my services, before 
other folks begin to tinker with him. 
R. B. Kimball, Was he Successful? li 7. 
tinguy, w. See tingi 
tining (ti'ning), n. [Verbal n. of tine 1 , r.] 
Dead-wood used in tilling, or repairing a hedge, tinkerly (ting ker-h), a. [< tinker + -ly 1 .] Per- . 
BaUiwtll [Prov Eng] taming to or characteristic of a tinker ; like a tinner (tin er), n. [< tin + -.] It. One who 
works in a tin-mine or tin-works. 
All tiniirn and labourers In and about the stannaries 
shall, during the time of their working therein buna fide, 
be privileged from suits of other courts. 
ltl'lrl*t,,i,e. Com., III. Vl. 
2. A tinman or tinsmith Tinner's stove, a tin- 
man's stove ; a portable stove of sheet-metal at which tin 
tink 1 (tingk), v. i. (< ME. tinken ; cf. W. cio, tinker, or a tinker's work, 
tink, tinkle; imitative, like ting. Hence freq. **! whipping-post, tinkerly stuff < 
tinkle, and tinker.'] To produce or emit a fine, Shirley, Love Tricks, 11. i. 
sharp, jingling sound, as of a small metallic tinkershire (ting'ker-sher), n. The common 
body striking upon a larger one ; make a tin- murre or guillemot, Lomvia tritile. Also <in- 
kliug noise. kershue. [Local, Eng.] ,_ i . . 
A helmeted figure . . . alighted ... on the floor amidst Tinker' S-Weed (ting'kerz-wed), n. The fever- raen *'"1 plumbers heat their solderlng-toola. 
a shower of splinters and linking glass. root, Triosteiini perfiiliutuin : so named from a Tinnevelly senna. See senna. 
Dr. Tinker of New England. It has purgative tinnientt (tin'i-ent), a. (X L. finmV(r-), ppr. 
and emetic properties. Also, erroneously, 71ii- of tinnire. ring: see fin;/ 1 , tiuk.] Emitting a 
f,-nr'.t-root. clear ringing or tinkling sound. Im/i. Diet. 
tinkle 1 (ting'kl), r.; pret. and pp. tinkled, ppr. tinning (tin'ing), . [Verbal n. of tin. r.] 1. 
link/ing. [< ME. "tinklen, iinelen ; freq. of n*-l. The art or process of coating metallic surfaces 
Cf. tingle.] I. intrans. 1. To make orgive forth 
C. Keade, Hard Cash, xliu. 
[< tink 1 , i\] A tinkiug or tin- 
tink 1 (tingk), w. 
kling sound. 
How It chimes, and cries tink in the close, divinely! 
/;. Jonson, Eplccene, II. _'. 
tink a t (tingk), r. t. [< tinker, taken as 'one who 
mends,' though it means lit. 'one who makes a 
Unking sound.' Cf. burgle < linri/lar, <i7e 2 < 
tiler, etc.] To mend as a tinker. The Worldc 
innl the Child,' (l.")L'). 
tinkal, n. Ser tinenl. 
tinkardt (ting'kftrd), n. [A var. of tinker, with 
accom. term. -<m?.] A tinker; a vagrant who 
is by turns a tinker and a beggar. 
A tinkarii leuveth his IIIIR a sweating at the ale-house, 
which they terme their bowsing In. ami in the meane sea- 
son goetll ahrode a bejrfiring. 
l-'rut ,r,iiiii, -Hi I'licaAoiu/radoTAX (A'nrw.) 
a succession of little clinking sounds; clink or 
tink repeatedly or continuously. 
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 
and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or 
a fiiiHiiu; cymbal. i Cor. xlll. 1. 
The water tinHe> like a distant guitar. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 49. 
2. To tingle. 
And his ears tiitkied, and his colour fled. 
Dryden, Theodore and Honoria, I. 91. 
II. trinitt. 1. To i 
gle; ring. 
to dink or tink; jiu- 
with tin, of making or repairing tinware, or of 
packing substances in tin cans for preservation. 
The protection of copper from rusting by tinning was 
known as early as the time of Pliny ; a similar treatment 
of sheet iron was first mentioned by Agricola. 
As you see, sir, I work at tinniny. I put new bott..ius 
into old tin tea-pots, and such like. 
Mayhev, London Labour and London Poor, I. 302. 
2. The layer or coat of tin thus applied. St. 
Tinware. 
If your butter, when It is melted, Ustes of brass. It is 
your master's fault, who will not allow yon a silver sauce- 
pan ; bealdes. . . . new tinning Is very chargeable. 
Swift, Advice to Servants (Cook). 
