a. Now rare or Obs. [ad. L. tingent-em, pres. pple. of ting-ĕre to color, TINGE.] That tinges or colors, coloring, dyeing.
1650. Ashmole, Chym. Collect., 118. Those two Bodies are shining, in which are tingent splendid Raies.
1667. Sprat, Hist. R. Soc., 304. In some Colours and Stuffs the Tingent Liquor must be boyling.
1727–41. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Dying, Some tingent liquors are fitted for use by long keeping.
1813. E. Bancroft, Dyeing, etc., I. 166, note. The tingent matter was in union with too great a proportion of the other constituents of the plant.
