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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PA'INT, v.t. [L. pingo,pictus.]
1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.
2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.
3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form.
When folly romantic, we must paint it.
4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe.
Disloyal!
--The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
5. To color; to diversify with colors.
6. To lay on artificial color for ornament.
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings 9.
PAINT, v.i. To lay colors on the face. It is said the ladies in France paint.
1. To practice painting. The artist paints well.
PAINT, n. A coloring substance; a substance used in painting; either simple or compound; as a white paint, or red paint.
1. Color laid on canvas or other material; color representing any thing.
2. Color laid on the face; rouge.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably" [syn: paint, pigment]
2: (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court; "he hit a jump shot from the top of the key"; "he dominates play in the paint" [syn: key, paint]
3: makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks [syn: rouge, paint, blusher] v
1: make a painting; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden"
2: apply paint to; coat with paint; "We painted the rooms yellow"
3: make a painting of; "He painted his mistress many times"
4: apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French paint, peint, past participle of peindre, from Latin pingere to tattoo, embroider, paint; akin to Old English f?h variegated, Greek poikilos variegated, pikros sharp, bitter Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. (1) to apply color, pigment, or paint to (2) to color with a cosmetic b. (1) to apply with a movement resembling that used in painting (2) to treat with a liquid by brushing or swabbing <paint the wound with iodine> 2. a. (1) to produce in lines and colors on a surface by applying pigments (2) to depict by such lines and colors b. to decorate, adorn, or variegate by applying lines and colors c. to produce or evoke as if by painting <paints glowing pictures of the farm> 3. to touch up or cover over by or as if by painting 4. to depict as having specified or implied characteristics <paints them whiter than the evidence justifies — Oliver La Farge> intransitive verb 1. to practice the art of painting 2. to use cosmetics II. noun Date: 1602 1. the action of painting ; something produced by painting 2. makeup; especially a cosmetic to add color 3. a. (1) a mixture of a pigment and a suitable liquid to form a closely adherent coating when spread on a surface in a thin coat (2) the pigment used in this mixture especially when in the form of a cake <a box of paints> b. an applied coating of paint 4. a powerful muscular pinto having quarter horse or Thoroughbred ancestry; broadly pinto — called also paint horse 5. free throw lane 6. computer-generated color design <a paint program>

Britannica Concise

Decorative and protective coating commonly applied to rigid surfaces as a liquid consisting of a pigment suspended in a vehicle, or binder. The vehicle, usually a resin dissolved in a solvent, dries to a tough film, binding the pigment to the surface. Paint was used for pictorial and decorative purposes in the caves of France and Spain as early as 15,000 BC.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a colouring matter, esp. in liquid form for imparting colour to a surface. b this as a dried film or coating (the paint peeled off). 2 joc. or archaic cosmetic make-up, esp. rouge or nail varnish. --v.tr. 1 a cover the surface of (a wall, object, etc.) with paint. b apply paint of a specified colour to (paint the door green). 2 depict (an object, scene, etc.) with paint; produce (a picture) by painting. 3 describe vividly as if by painting (painted a gloomy picture of the future). 4 joc. or archaic a apply liquid or cosmetic to (the face, skin, etc.). b apply (a liquid to the skin etc.). Phrases and idioms: painted lady an orange-red butterfly, esp. Cynthia cardui, with black and white spots. paint out efface with paint. paint shop the part of a factory where goods are painted, esp. by spraying. paint-stick a stick of water-soluble paint used like a crayon. paint the town red colloq. enjoy oneself flamboyantly. Derivatives: paintable adj. Etymology: ME f. peint past part. of OF peindre f. L pingere pict- paint

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Paint 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. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Paint 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. --Praed.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(paints, painting, painted) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Paint is a coloured liquid that you put onto a surface with a brush in order to protect the surface or to make it look nice, or that you use to produce a picture. ...a pot of red paint... They saw some large letters in white paint. ...water-based artist's paints. N-MASS 2. On a wall or object, the paint is the covering of dried paint on it. The paint was peeling on the window frames... N-SING: the N 3. If you paint a wall or an object, you cover it with paint. They started to mend the woodwork and paint the walls... I made a guitar and painted it red. ...painted furniture. VERB: V n, V n colour, V-ed, also V 4. If you paint something or paint a picture of it, you produce a picture of it using paint. He is painting a huge volcano... Why do people paint pictures?... I had come here to paint. VERB: V n, V n, V 5. When you paint a design or message on a surface, you put it on the surface using paint. ...a machine for painting white lines down roads... The recesses are decorated with gold stars, with smaller stars painted along the edges. VERB: V n prep, V-ed 6. If a woman paints her lips or nails, she puts a coloured cosmetic on them. She propped the mirror against her handbag and began to paint her lips... She painted her fingernails bright red. VERB: V n, V n colour 7. If you paint a grim or vivid picture of something, you give a description of it that is grim or vivid. The report paints a grim picture of life there... VERB: V n 8. see also painting, gloss paint, oil paint, poster paint, war paint

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jezebel "painted her face" (2 Kings 9:30); and the practice of painting the face and the eyes seems to have been common (Jer. 4:30; Ezek. 23:40). An allusion to this practice is found in the name of Job's daughter (42:14) Kerenhappuch (q.v.). Paintings in the modern sense of the word were unknown to the ancient Jews.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pant (from Old French peinctre, frequentative of peindre, Latin pingo, "to paint"):

(1) From Hebrew verb mashach, "to smear," "to anoint," "to paint," describing the painting of interiors with vermilion, perhaps resembling lacquer: "ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion" (Jer 22:14). The shields of the Ninevite soldiers were red, presumably painted (Na 2:3).

(2) From noun pukh, "paint," "antimon," "stibium," "black mineral powder" used as a cosmetic, to lend artificial size and fancied beauty to the eye, always spoken of as a meretricious device, indicating light or unworthy character. Jezebel "painted her eyes, and attired her head" (2Ki 9:30, literally, "put pukh into her eyes"). To the harlot city Jerusalem, Jeremiah (4:30) says, "deckest thee ...., enlargest thine eyes with paint" (pukh). the King James Version renders "rentest thy face," as if the stain were a cut, or the enlarging done by violence.

(3) From verb kachal, "to smear," "to paint." Ezekiel says to Oholah-Oholibah (Judah-Israel), "didst wash thyself, paint (kachal) thine eyes," as the adulteress prepares herself for her paramour (Eze 23:40). The antimony, in an extremely fine powder (Arabic kuchl, from kachal), is placed in the eye by means of a very fine rod, bodkin, or probe, drawn between the edges of the eyelids. This distends the eye, and also increases its apparent size, the effect being increased by a line of stain drawn from the corner, and by a similar line prolonging the eyebrow.

See EYEPAINT; COLOR.

Philip Wendell Crannell

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Represent (by colors). 2. Color (with a pigment), coat with paint, smear. 3. Depict, delineate, describe, sketch, portray, pencil, set forth, image, picture, draw. 4. Embellish, deck, adorn, beautify, ornament. II. n. Pigment, coloring matter.

Moby Thesaurus

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