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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paint \Paint\ (p[=a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Painted}; p. pr &
vb n. {Painting}.] [OE. peinten fr F. peint, p. p. of
peindre to paint, fr L. pingere, pictum; cf Gr poiki`los
many-colored, Skr. pi[,c] to adorn. Cf {Depict}, {Picture},
{Pigment}, {Pint}.]
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
Kings ix 30.
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. --Shak.
Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with
delight. --Shak.
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.
Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her
wickedness. --Shak.
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it --Pope.
Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch;
draw; describe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Painting \Paint"ing\, n.
1. The act or employment of laying on or adorning with
paints or colors.
2. (Fine Arts) The work of the painter; also any work of art
in which objects are represented in color on a flat
surface; a colored representation of any object or scene;
a picture.
3. Color laid on paint. [R.] --Shak.
4. A depicting by words vivid representation in words
Syn: See {Picture}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
painting
n 1: an artistic composition made by applying paints to a
surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the
painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the
Louvre" [syn: {picture}]
2: making a picture with paints; "he studied painting and
sculpture for many years"
3: the act of applying paint to a surface; "you can finish the
job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush"
4: the occupation of a house painter; "house painting was the
only craft he knew" [syn: {house painting}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and
exposing them to the critic.
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work:
the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between
the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.
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