Tint of colour = degree of intensity. In painting in oils this is lowered by the addition of a white pigment, in water-colours by dilution. “Tint is any unbroken state of any colour, varying between the intensity of its parent colour and the purity of white.” (J. B. Pyne, in the Art Union of 1844.) (See Tones.)
Tint-tools. In copper and wood-engraving, gravers used for skies, still waters, architecture, &c. The word “tint” in engraving means colour, and skies are tints cut horizontally.
Tintinnabulatus, R. Carrying a bell (tintinnabulum); a term applied especially to animals which carried a bell hung round their neck.
Fig. 654. Tintinnabulum. Front view.
Fig. 655. Tintinnabulum. Side view.
Tintinnabulum, R. (Gr. κώδων). A bell used as a hand-bell; they took very various forms in antiquity, hemispherical, pear-shaped, or cylindrical, and some were square. The Romans also made use of a kind of swinging gong similar to that shown in Figs. 654 and 655, of a specimen discovered at Pompeii, and now in the Naples museum.
Tintinnabulum, O. E. A musical instrument made of a set of bells, arranged in order within a frame.
Tints. (See Tone.)