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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tingle  \Tin"gle\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tingled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tingling}.]  [Freq.  of  ting.  Cf  {Tinkle}.] 
  1.  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.  --1  Sam.  iii. 
  11. 
 
  2.  To  feel  a  sharp,  thrilling  pain. 
 
  The  pale  boy  senator  yet  tingling  stands.  --Pope. 
 
  3.  To  have  or  to  cause  a  sharp,  thrilling  sensation,  or  a 
  slight  pricking  sensation. 
 
  They  suck  pollution  through  their  tingling  vein. 
  --Tickell. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tingling 
  adj  1:  exciting  by  touching  lightly  so  as  to  cause  laughter  or 
  twitching  movements  [syn:  {tickling},  {titillating}] 
  2:  causing  or  experiencing  a  painful  shivering  feeling  as  from 
  many  tiny  pricks;  "a  prickling  blush  of  embarrassment"; 
  "the  tingling  feeling  in  a  foot  that  has  gone  to  sleep"; 
  "a  stinging  nettle";  "the  stinging  windblown  sleet"  [syn: 
  {prickling},  {stinging}] 
  n  :  a  pricking  somatic  sensation  [syn:  {prickling},  {tingle}] 




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