tint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.
2. n. A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.
3. n. A slight coloration; a tinge.
4. n. A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.
5. n. A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.
6. n. Printing A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.
7. n. A dye for the hair.
8. v. To give a tint to or take on a tint.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A variety of a color, especially and properly a luminous variety of low chroma; also, abstractly, the respect in which a color may be varied by more or less admixture of white light, which at once increases the luminosity and diminishes the chroma. In painting, tints are the colors, considered as more or less bright, deep, or thin, by the due use and combination of which a picture receives its shades, softness, and variety.
2. n. In engraving, a series of parallel lines cut upon a wood block with a tint-tool, so as to produce an even and uniform shading, as in clear skies.
3. To apply a tint or tints to; color in a special manner; tinge.
4. A Scotch preterit of tine.

Wiktionary

1. n. A slight coloring
2. n. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
3. n. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints
4. n. A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines
5. v. transitive, intransitive to shade, to color

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A slight coloring.
2. n. A pale or faint tinge of any color.
3. n. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
4. n. (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
5. v. To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. color lightly
2. n. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color