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verb

Tingle v. i. (past & past part. tingled; pres. part. tingling)

To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. "At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle."

To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. "The pale boy senator yet tingling stands."

To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation. "They suck pollution through their tingling vein."

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Etymology of 'Tingle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... fountains, and the people—and the palmetto clearing in far away Florida. He did not know of the funeral and the group assembled around the log-cabin. But he knew of the clearing. He had been there, and always felt his blood tingle when he thought of it, and it was the picture of it which had haunted him all day, and which came and stood beside him, shutting out everything else, as he began to thank the people for the honor conferred upon him by calling ...

— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes

... cold—so cold that his face began to tingle as he stood there. These things he noticed, but he could see nothing to hold Mukoki's vision in the sky above unless it was the ...

— The Wolf Hunters - A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... country matches, well tipped with odorous sulphur. The officer at her side saw nothing of her movements, and his first knowledge of her intention was the sudden and mysterious appearance of a bluish flame close beside him and the tingle of burning brimstone in ...

— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... Puckered lips whose pipings tingle In staccato notes that mingle Musically with the jingle- Haunted winds that lightly fan Mellow twilights, crimson-tinted By the sun, and picture-printed Like a book that sweetly hinted Of ...

— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley

... days and when labor is over and there falls the great flood of light before moonrise, minds now dulled with harsh labor and commercialism will listen to those who love them as they tell stories of ages past, stories that will make them tingle with pleasure and joy. Nor will these story tellers forget the classics. They will hear the surge of the ocean in Homer and march with his heroes to the plains of Troy; they will wander with Ulysses and help him slay the suitors who betrayed the hospitality of the faithful ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various

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