tingle

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.Examples: "My hands were tingling from the cold."; "I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles."; "For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement."intransitive

2. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.Examples: "Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes."transitive

3. (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.Examples: "Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes."; "1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round sharp tingling bells"; "The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull."intransitive

4. (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.Examples: "Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled."; "[…]the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell."Synonyms: tinkletransitive