[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That tingles: see the verb, in its various senses.
1. Thrilling; stinging, smarting (as with cold); quivering, vibrating.
1716. Gay, Trivia, II. 336. The harness’d Chairman … Swings around his Waste, his tingling Hands.
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 361. Quick Pleasures sting Their tingling Nerves.
1751. Cambridge, Scribleriad, V. 20. The Scratching-stick with which the Seer subdued The tingling tumults of his boiling blood.
1842. Tennyson, Morte d’Arth., 199. A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, xxxvi. She felt a tingling shame at the words of ignominy she had cast at Tito.
2. Ringing lightly, as a small bell; tinkling; jingling.
c. 1450. [see TINGLE v. 4].
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 63. A confused masse of words, with a tingling sound of ryme.
1651. Burton’s Anat. Mel., II. ii. VI. iii. 300. Bees … when they hear any tingling [earlier edd. tinkling] sound, will tarry behinde.
1700. Astry, trans. Saavedra-Faxardo, I. 73. Their tingling shrill sound is like a Voice.
Hence Tinglingly adv., a. in a way that makes some part of the body tingle; b. quiveringly, tremulously; ticklishly, delicately.
1889. Temple Bar Mag., Nov., 397. Lest … the sanctity of the Sabbath [should] be impressed tinglingly on me.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 13 April, 10/1. He [Shaks’s Rich. II.] is so nicely balanced, so tinglingly poised.
