tint.

On Celebrated Lawyers.

He clenched his pamphlets in his fist,
He quoted and he hinted,
Till, in a declamation-mist,
His argument he tint it:
He gaped for 't, he graped for 't,
He fand it was awa, man;
But what his common sense came short,
He eke'd out wi law, man.

Robert Burns.

Translation:

tint: lost.

25, January, 2005