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noun

Paint n.

1.

(a)

A pigment or coloring substance.

(b)

The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

2.

A cosmetic; rouge.

verb

Paint v. t. (past & past part. painted; pres. part. painting)

1.

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. "Jezebel painted her face and tired her head."

2.

Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. "Not painted with the crimson spots of blood." "Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight."

3.

To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

4.

Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor. "Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness." "If folly grow romantic, I must paint it."

Synonyms: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.

Paint v. t.

1.

To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

2.

To color one's face by way of beautifying it. "Let her paint an inch thick."

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Etymology of 'Paint'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Paint" Quotes from Famous Books

... what to do with themselves in the country. There are staid and respectable mansions that never move from the even tenor of their ways; and there are houses that change their fashions every season, putting on a new coat of paint every spring; and there is one that dresses itself out in summer with so many flags and streamers that one might imagine Fourth of ...

— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott

... from a very questionable model, his labours in adorning the figure-head are apt to produce strange monsters. I once heard of a captain who indulged his boatswain in this whim of representing his absent love as far as the king's allowance of paint could carry the art; and it must be owned, that, as the original Dulcinea owed her roses to the same source, the representation "came very close aboard of the original," as the delighted boatswain expressed it. This very proximity ...

— The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from - Fragments of Voyages and Travels • Basil Hall

... tiny old lady sat in a wheel chair in the center of the room. Her skin was almost as yellow as the paint on the house and considerably more wrinkled. She had bright black eyes that reminded Rosemary of a bird and little, eager claw-like hands that were strangely bird-like, too. She beamed at the girls, plainly delighted ...

— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

... things were done by machinery at the Egyptian Hall. Faces also, it was believed, were seen looking out of the cabinet which Mr. Parker had once more helped to erect this morning; but these, it was explained, were "done" by luminous paint. Finally, if people insisted on looking into causes, Electricity was a sufficient answer for all the rest. No one ...

— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

... (Nor think my friend th' assertion bold) 20 This languid age-enfeebled mind, As in life's prime, it's powers unfold—- Again th' ideal scenes arise, The visions stream before my eyes, Resistless on the rous'd imagination pour, And paint themselves ...

— A Pindarick Ode on Painting - Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. • Thomas Morrison

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