Definition of paint

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Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors..

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Phantasmagoria :: Phantasmagoria (n.) An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another..
Nonpareil :: Nonpareil (a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch..
Repaint :: Repaint (v. t.) To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture..
Portraitist :: Portraitist (n.) A portrait painter.
Grained :: Grained (a.) Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc..
Subjectivism :: Subjective (a.) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer..
Bronzing :: Bronzing (n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes..
Overpaint :: Overpaint (v. t.) To color or describe too strongly.
Maul-stick :: Maul-stick (n.) A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working.
Calender :: Calender (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Rouge :: Rouge (v. i.) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
Form :: Form (n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body..
Underwork :: Underwork (v. t.) To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting..
Carmine :: Carmine (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting..
Christcross :: Christcross (n.) The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial..
Tacky :: Tacky (a.) Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms..
Painter :: Painter (n.) The panther, or puma..
Lacwork :: Lacwork (n.) Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind..
Fucus :: Fucus (n.) A paint; a dye; also, false show..
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