[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 colors 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.
