one of the divisions of Arabia Felix in Asia, situated on the Red-sea, between the provinces of Mecca and Hadramut.

**TEINTS** and **SEMI-TEINTS**, in painting, denotes the several colours used in a picture, considered as more or less high, bright, deep, thin, or weakened, and diminished, &c. to give the proper relieu, softness, or distance, &c. of the several objects.