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TINCA, the Tench, in Ichthyology. See Cvprinus. 
TINCA MARINA, the sea tench, a name given by some 
authors to the common turdus. 
TI'NCAL, s. A mineral.—The tincal of the Persians 
seems to be the chrysocolla of the ancients, and what our 
borax is made of. Woodward 
TINCHEBRA, a small town in the north of France, de¬ 
partment of the Orne, on the river Noireau. Population 3000; 
14 miles north of Domfront, and 30 west of Argentan. 
To TINCT, v. a. [ tinctus, Lat.; feint, Fr.] To stain ; 
to colour; to spot; to die.—Some were tincted blue, some 
red, others yellow. Brown .—To imbue with a taste.—We 
have artificial wells made in imitation of the natural, as 
tincted upon vitriol, sulphur and steel. Bacon. 
TINCT, part. Coloured ; stained.—The blue in black, 
the green in gray, is tinct. Spenser. 
TINCT, s. Colour; stain ; spot. 
That great med’cine hath 
With his tinct gilded thee Skakspeare. 
TI'NCTURE, s. [teinture , Fr.; tinct ura from tinctus , 
Latin.] Colour or taste superadded by something. 
Hence the morning planet gilds her horn; 
By tincture or reflection they augment 
Their small peculiar. . Milton. 
Extract of some drug made in spirits.—In tinctures drawn 
from vegetables, the superfluous spirit of wine distilled oft' 
leaves the extract of the vegetable. Boyle. 
To TI'NCTURE, v. a. To imbue or impregnate with 
some colour or taste. 
The bright sun compacts the precious stone, 
Imparting radiant lustre like his own ; 
He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue, 
And on the sapphire spreads a heavenly blue. Blachnore. 
To imbue the mind—Early were our minds tinctured 
with a distinguishing sense of good and evil; early were the 
seeds of a divine love, and holy fear of offending, sown in 
our hearts. Atterbury. 
TINCULEN, or Tinzulen, a village of Tafilet, in the 
southern part of Morocco; 120 miles south-west of Tafilet. 
To TIND, v. a. [ tandjan , M. Goth.; taenda, Su. Goth.; 
cenban, Sax., from the Celt and Welsh, tan, fire. Wachter, 
and Sereniusi] To kindle; to set on fire.—As one candle 
tindeth a thousand. Bp. Sanderson. 
TENDER, s. [cynbpe, eenbpe, Saxon.] Any thing emi¬ 
nently inflammable placed to catch fire. 
Strike on the tinder, ho! 
Give me a taper. Shakspeare. 
TI'NDERBOX, s. The box for holding tinder. 
That worthy patriot, once the bellows, 
And tinderbox of all his fellows. Hudibras. 
TI'NDERLIKE, adj. Inflammable as tinder.—I am 
known to be a humorous patrician; hasty and tinderlike 
upon too trivial motion. Shakspeare. 
TINE, s. [tindr. Icel.; tinne, West Goth, from the Goth. 
taunn, tenn, a tooth, Serenius; cinbap, Sax., occse rastri.] 
The tooth of a harrow; the spike of a fork.—In the southern 
parts of England they destroy moles by traps that fall on 
them, and strike sharp tines or teeth through them. Mor¬ 
timer. —Trouble ; distress. See Teen. 
The tragical effect, 
Vouchsafe, O thou the mournful’st muse of nine. 
That wont’st the tragic stage for to direct, 
In funeral complaints and wailful tine. Spenser. 
To TINE, v. a. [tynan, Saxon. See To Tind.] To 
kindle; to light; to set on fire. 
The priests with holy hands were seen to tine 
The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine. Dry den. 
[cinan, Saxon, to shut.\ To shut; to fence or enclose. 
doles, and Grose. 
To TINE, v. n. To rage; to smart. Not now in use. 
Eden though but small 
Yet often stainde with blood of many band 
Of Scots and English both, that tyned on his strand. Spenser. 
TINEDALE, a valley of England, in the county of North¬ 
umberland, watered by the North Tyne, which separates it 
from Redesdale on the North. It was made a barony by 
Henry I. Several battles have been fought here, whereof 
memorials remain, both British and Pictish. 
TINEN, or THiNEH,the ruins of a city in Lower Egypt, 
situated upon the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. This branch 
is now reduced to little more than a channel of mud, travers¬ 
ing a smooth, barren, and naked plain. The castle of Tineh, 
which appears to have been built about the time of the con¬ 
quest of Selim, is now falling to ruins. Lat. 30. 55. N. 
long. 32. 30. E. 
TINEH, a small town of Tripoli, in Africa, is situated on 
thegulphof Sidra, or Syrtis. Lat. 30. 5. N. long. 19. 12. E. 
TINMAN, or Tienman, s . Of old a petty officer in the 
forest, who had the nocturnal care of vert and venison, and 
other servile employments. Cowel. 
TINE WALD, the parliament or annual convention of 
the people of the Isle of Man, of which this account is given: 
—the governor and officers of that island do usually summon 
the twenty-four keys, being the chief commons of it, once 
every year, viz., upon Midsummer-day, at St. John’s cha¬ 
pel, to the court kept there, called the tinewald-court; 
where, upon a hill near the said chapel, the inhabitants of 
the island stand round about the plain adjoining: and here 
the laws and ordinances, agreed upon in the chapel of St. 
John, are published and declared unto them. At this so¬ 
lemnity the lord of the island sits in a chair of state, with a 
royal canopy over his head, and a sword held before him, 
attended by the several degrees of the people, who sit on each 
side of him, &c. 
To TING, v. n. [from the sound; t inter, Fr.] To ring; 
to sound as a bell. Cotgrave, and Sherwood. 
TING, s. A sharp sound: as, the ting of a bell. Sher¬ 
wood. —The little bell of a church is in several places called 
the ting tang. 
TING, a city of China, of the second rank, in Pe-chee-lee. 
Lat. 38. 32. N. long. 114.39. E. 
TINGANO, a small river on the eastern coast of Malacca, 
which falls into the sea of China. Lat. 5. 27. N. long. 103. 
9. E. 
TING-CHAN, a town of Corea; 30 miles south-east of 
Haimen. 
To TINGE, v. a. [tingo , Lat.] To impregnate or imbue 
with a colour or taste.—Sir Roger is something of an hu¬ 
mourist ; and his virtues as well as imperfections are tinged 
by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly 
his. Addison. 
TI'NGENT, adj. [tingens, Lat.] Having the power to 
tinge.—This wood, by the tincture it afforded, appeared to 
have its coloured part genuine; but as for the white part, it 
appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle. 
TINGEWICK, a parish of England, in Buckinghamshire; 
2f miles west-by-south of Buckingham. Population 711. 
TING-FAN, a city of China, of the second rank, in Koeit- 
choo. Lat. 26. 5. N. long. 106. 4. E. 
TINGI, a cluster of small islands in the Chinese sea, near 
the eastern coast of Malacca. Lat. 2. 23. N. long. 104.21. E 
TI'NGLASS, 5. Bismuth. 
To TINGLE, v. n. [tingelen, Dutch.] To feel a sound, 
or the continuance of a sound, in the ears. This is perhaps 
rather tinkle; which see.—-The ears of every one that hear- 
eth it shall tingle. 1 Sam. —To feel a sharp quick pain 
with a sensation of motion.—The pale boy senator yet 
tingling stands. Pope. —To feel either pain or pleasure 
with a sensation of motion. The sense of this word is not 
very well ascertained.—They suck pollution through their 
tingling veins. Ttckell. 
TINGLING, s. A kind of pain or pleasure with a sen¬ 
sation of motion ; a noise in the ears—A kind of sleeping 
in the blood, a whoreson tingling. Shakspeare. 
TINGO, 
