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Kitcat :: Kitcat (a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club..

Accord :: Accord (v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint..

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

Sfumato :: Sfumato (a.) Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting..

Enamel :: Enamel (v. t.) To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.

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..

Stereoelectric :: Stereochromy (n.) A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda)..

Fard :: Fard (n.) Paint used on the face.

Paint :: Paint (n.) A pigment or coloring substance.

Chiaro-oscuro :: Chiaro-oscuro (n.) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color..

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

Dead :: Dead (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

Cassius :: Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius..

Mispaint :: Mispaint (v. t.) To paint ill, or wrongly..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.

Stain :: Stain (v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass..

Repose :: Repose (v.) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose..

Avignon Berry :: Avignon berry () The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry..

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