[f. TINGLE v. + -ING1.] The action or condition expressed by the verb TINGLE, in its various senses.
I. 1. The ringing of the ears; a thrilling or unpleasant tickling of the ear.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xii. (Bodl. MS.). Warmod istamped with boles lyuoure & ido into þe eres destruyeþ ringinge and tingelinge þat is þerein.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 93. For the tingling of the ears, take with this gall the Oyl of Roses.
1611. Bp. Hall, Impresse of God, I. Wks. (1624), 442. Ten times … is the same word dually used; for Cymbals; and the Verbe of this root [Heb. tsalal, to tinkle, tingle, vibrate, quiver] is the same, whereby God would expresse the tingling of the eares.
2. A thrilling, stinging, or smarting sensation; an emotion likened to this, a thrill.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. lvi. (Bodl. MS.). Tyngling and fleting in þe riggebone and aboute þe schuldres.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XI. xiii. (1886), 162. The tingling in the finger, the elbowe, the toe.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. ii. 129. Fal. This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie, a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.
1653. W. G., Bacon’s Hist. Winds, etc., 222. Also sharp and violent cold produceth a kinde of tingling, like unto burning.
1658. A. Fox, Würtz’ Surg., III. xxiii. 293. When that member felt a tickling or tingling, it was a sign of healing.
1769. Priestley, in Phil. Trans., LIX. 62. The explosion … gave it [my hand] a violent jar, the effect of which remained, in a kind of tingling.
1843. Lever, J. Hinton, xxxiii. Feeling a kind of tingling of shame.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Uses Gt. Men, Wks. (Bohn), I. 279. We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 705. Numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes.
II. 3. A continued light ringing sound of a small bell or the like; nearly = TINKLING vbl. sb. 2.
1398. [see TINGLE v. 4].
a. 1533. Frith, Disput. Purgat. (1829), 134. St. Dominic’s box (which hath such power, that as soon as the tingling is heard in the box, so soon the soul is free in heaven).
1653. Gataker, Vind. Annot. Jer., 53. They were wont … to keep a whooping and halowing … and blowing of horns, and tingling of bels.
1817. Lady Morgan, France, I. (1818), I. 92. We were awakened … by the noise of hammering, and the tingling of bells.
a. 1828. H. Neele, Lit. Rem. (1829), 219. And distant tinglings mingled with the lay.
