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Paint   /peɪnt/   Listen
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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"Paint" Quotes from Famous Books



... he began, with moving eloquence, To paint the sufferings of your martyrdom; He showed me then your lofty pedigree, And your descent from Tudor's royal house. He proved to me that you alone have right To reign in England, not this upstart queen, The ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... office is precise and important, but you must not try to paint him in rose-color; you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and gravitation, whose minister he is.—This hard work will always be done by one kind of man; not by scheming speculators, nor by soldiers, nor ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... every second now. The boys could see the expressions on their evil faces, intensified by the streaks of yellow and red paint. ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico • Frank Gee Patchin
... transient and worthless. It is only the divine certitudes, which can exist under any external circumstances, that are of much account in our estimate of human happiness, and it is these which ordinarily escape the attention of historians when they paint the condition of society. Our admiration and our pity are alike wasted when we turn our eyes to the outward condition of our rural ancestors, so long as we have reason to believe that their souls were jubilant ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord
... and the factor's wife were alone in the yard of the post one day, an Indian chief, Arrowhead, in war-paint and feathers, entered suddenly, brandishing a long knife. He had been drinking, and there was danger in his black eyes. With a sudden inspiration she came forward quickly, nodded and smiled to him, and then pointed to a grindstone standing in the corner of ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker


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