▪ I. tinging, vbl. n.
(ˈtɪŋɪŋ)
[f. ting v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb ting; ringing.
| 1495 [see ting v. 1]. 1528 Paynel Salerne's Regim. Y iij, Whiche..causeth tyngynge or ryngynge in the eare. 1562 Turner Baths A ij b, The wyndenes or synging or tynging of the eares. 1611 Cotgr., Tintement, a tinging, ringing, tingling. 1840 P. Parley's Ann. I. 54 It goes click clack, tick tack,..ting, ting, ting, ting, and stops between its tinging almost as if it were out of breath. |
▪ II. tinging, ppl. a.1
(ˈtɪŋɪŋ)
[f. ting v. + -ing2.]
That tings; ringing, as metal; that emits a ringing sound, as the tinging frog.
| 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xxiv. iv. 250 Neither the tinging sound [L. tinnitus] of the yron tooles digging hard by could bee heard. 1611 Cotgr., Charivaris de poelles, the carting of an infamous person, graced with the harmonie of tinging kettles, and frying-pan Musicke. 1802 Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 135 Tinging Frog... Smaller than the European Tree Frog. Native of South America. |
▪ III. tinging, tingeing, ppl. a.2
(ˈtɪndʒɪŋ)
[f. tinge v. + -ing2. The distinctive spelling tingeing, on the analogy of singeing, appears in Webster 1864, Cent. Dict., Funk's Standard Dict.]
That tinges or colours slightly.
| 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. i. 14 My curiosity leading me to abstract the Menstruum from the tinging Powder. 1758 J. Kennedy Curios. Wilton House (1786) p. xiv, Places, where no tinging or fouling Substances touched them. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 400 A Florentine, named Federigo, discovered..the tinging properties of this lichen. |