The color of its fur varies considerably in different individuals, the general tint being a rich, dark brown.
The ground tint of the fur in the wild cat is yellowish grey, diversified with dark streaks over the body and limbs, much after the appearance of the so-called "tiger cat.
The general color of the animal is reddish brown, this tint being imparted principally by the long hairs of the fur.
If the bark of the nut is used when green, the result will be a yellow brown; and this stain is also valuable in making a greentint when an after-dip of blue is added.
In preparing this, the plant is steeped in water, and the tint set with alum.
There is one very simple and useful rule in colour arrangements, and this is to make one tint largely predominant.
White, however, can often be used in borders of rather dark rugs in alternation with black or any dark colour, because its total absence of tint makes it strong and distinct, and gives it force in marking a limit.
Walnut and butternut stains will give fast shades of brown and yellow, and in addition there is also the buff or nankeen-coloured cotton, the natural tint of which combines well with brown and blue.
Even the son of a king, the offspring of such a union would be spoken of in mess and drawing-room as a half-caste: the indelible sign would be upon him, the blue tint to the white moons in his finger nails.
The whole border is backed by a stone wall eleven feet high, now fully clothed with shrubs and plants that take their place in the colour-scheme, either for tint of bloom or mass of foliage.
Taste is not wanting in this adornment, for the tint is often delicate, and the black circles round the eyes indicate that they understand effect, increasing as they do the lustre of the orbs.
Sea, and plain, and rolling steppe lay aside their seamless shroud of white, and a brilliant tint of emerald overspreads the landscape.
In the Sierras some have a bluish tint as if dyed with indigo.
A shade of red, very near to crimson, is the astral color of Love, but the tint and shade varies greatly according to the nature of this form of emotional feeling.
Color shades into color, tint into tint, hue into hue, as in the color scale of the spectrum of which the rainbow is the most familiar example.
The aura of a person experiencing these feelings, and yielding to them, will manifest precisely the tint or shade of green which is shown on the grass and leaves around him, so true is this natural law of action and reaction.
Again, a clear beautiful lighter tint of green indicates what may be called sympathy, altruistic emotion, charity, etc.
The pulp is brought to any desired tint by the addition of mineral pigments or aniline dyes to the contents of the engine.
In all such cases, the dyes must be carefully selected in order to obtain a coloured paper which will show a minimum alteration in tint by exposure to light or by contact with chemical substances.
The shade or tint of the paper is affected not only by exposure to light, but by contact of the coloured paper with common boards on which it is often pasted.
They do not pretend to be perfect reproductions of every shade and tint of the plumage of the species they figure, but aim to present a bird's characteristic colors as they appear when seen at a distance.
Crown and back bluish gray, sides of head brownish; below dingy white with a buffy tinton belly.
The color is generally of a lemon hue, becoming darker and assuming a bronze or greenish tint as the hepatic lesion assumes a graver character.
A small amount of bile is sufficient totint the surface of the body.
The quality and character of the fluid show great variation, from a few pints to several gallons, and from a straw or lemon tint to a brownish or greenish hue.
These were often made with pen and ink on paper prepared with a tintor with brush and wash tones on white or tinted paper.
Jackson tells us that he worked on some tint blocks, first from a drawing by Giulio Romano and later from a drawing by Raphael, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, the original modello for one of the famous tapestry cartoons.
No doubt he produced it on his own and offered it as a plate for the publication, perhaps at the time he was commissioned to cut the tint blocks to be used in combination with de Caylus’ etching of this subject.
The Le Sueurs followed da Carpi’s method while Jackson used a loosely drawn outline and threetint blocks in a slight variation of the Andreani style.
The Italians, in turn, often used two blocks in the German fashion, reproducing a complete crosshatched pen drawing with one tint block.
Jackson to transcribe the entire painting as a pen-and-ink drawing in Titian’s style, with a tintblock added.
She leaned upon her elbow, admiring the deep tint of her own eyes with their long dark lashes, the white curve of her throat, and the perfect oval of her face.
He wore a broad-brimmed hat, frayed at the edges, and so discoloured that it was hard to say what its original tint had been.
As the color of the sea depends greatly upon the disposition of the surrounding lands and the prevailing condition of the atmosphere, each little inlet has some tint or effect of light peculiar to itself.
While he was not so imposing in mufti as in his uniform, the trim traveling-suit of russet brown went well with the bronze tint of the complexion.
To do so it was necessary for her to turn her head both sidewise and upward, so that he got the exquisite lines of the neck and profile, the mysterious gray-green tint of the eyes, and the coppery gleam of her hair.
They have a uniform tint throughout their extent, and they never pass through the successive stages observed in the spots of typhus.
On opening the abdominal cavity of persons who have died in the collapse of cholera one is struck by the general pink or rose tint of the peritoneal coat of the intestines.
All these changes in form, with the great darkening in tint which is often present, give at times a most repulsive expression to the face.
They are also especially associated with thrombosis of the veins, which occurs to a less extent in the nodular form and conduces to the dark-blue tint of the mucosa.
It has usually lost its normal color and acquired the tint described by the French as feuille morte (faded leaf).
If it is delayed until later, they "present a peculiar fawn or yellow tint permeating the ordinary red in patches and veins not unlike the appearance of veined marble.
Yonder steep bank slopes down to the lake-side, one solid mass of pale pink laurel, but, once upon the water, a purer tint prevails.
In this short time every tint of every petal is transformed; it is gorgeous in beauty, but it is "Hebe turned to Magdalen.
In those species in which the under surface is protectively coloured, we often find the upper surface alike in both sexes, the tint of colour being usually more intense in the male.
From this primary tint arose, under the influence of varied conditions, and probably in correlation with constitutional changes adapted to peculiar climates, the varied tints which still exist among mankind.
Yet the comparative scarcity of yellow in fruits, while it is the most common tint of fading leaves, is against this supposition.
Most frequent of all has been the specialisation of each distinct form by some tint or marking for purposes of easy recognition, especially in the case of gregarious animals whose safety largely depends upon association and mutual defence.
When any particular flower becomes fashionable and is grown in large quantities, variations are always met with sufficient to produce great varieties of tint or marking, as shown by our roses, auriculas, and geraniums.
In Nature's workshop but a shaving, Of her poem but a word, But a tint brushed from her palette, This feather of a bird!
Then we talked the matter over, and I got quite keen about the colour of the background, and suggested a particular tint of jonquil canary.
The little bird was of a dusty black, with faint green reflections, and with a light drab tint beneath his beak, but with no white whatever under the tail.
Black and yellow predominate in the hues; but sometimes a rich chocolate colour, with some other tint rather lighter, relieves the darkness of the rest of the costume.
Their wine was Lacrima Christi of the precise tint to carry on the scheme of color.
Twenty-eight days finds the leaves a slightly deeper green in tint and beginning to unfurl; while the flower-stem is now more slowly developing, showing a close approximation to the order of growth under natural conditions.
I saw a line of Mount Marcys all round the horizon; the rosy tint in the west made a broad band of pink along the sky above the tree-tops; the evening star was a perfect circle of light, a hoop of gold in the heavens.
There is a red tint on the tips of the boughs of the hard maple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
