verb

• (transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
  "[T]he water being ting'd red, cant it off, iterate it ſo long till the Vitriol tingeth the water no more."
• (transitive, figuratively) To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
  "Hail! nurse of thought, with brow serene; / Who, as the sun, so wont, retires, / And leaves the sky to milder fires, / Tingest with shadowy forms the fading scene, [...]"
• (intransitive) To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.
  "[H]is virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men."