paint 
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nhorescent "paint. Same as luminous paint. Pick's 
paint a protective dressing in skin affections, composed 
of gelatin, glycerin, and zinc oxid with water. 
paintable (pan'ta-bl), . [< paint + -alle.] 
That can be painted; admitting of artistic n 
production in colors. 
It is a strange Victor Hugoish conception, not without 
grandeur and poetry : paintable perhaps by an artist who 
combined in himself Michael Angelo, Tintoretto and iur- 
ner- nineteenth Century, XXIV. 41. 
paint-box (pant'boks), ii. A box, usually with 
compartments, for the convenient holding ot the 
different paints used by an artist or painter. 
.--i_j. i ,-j /t'-h~;;\ n Tlieat., a suspended 
pair 
By woe, the soul to daring action swells ; 
By woe, in paintless patience it excels. 
Savage, Wanderer, ii. 
paintmentt (pant'ment), n. [< paint + -ment.~\ 
Paint; color. 
And Nature's paintments, red, and yellow, blew, 
With colours plenty round about him grew. 
Good Newes and Bad Newes (1622). (If ares.) 
paint-mill (pant'mil), n. A machine for grind- 
ing paints. 
Painted-lady {Pyraine, 
Daint-burner (pant'ber'ner), n. A gas- or oil- natural or other objects on 
P lamp, with a blowpipe, used to burn off old paint means of colors, 
in order to prepare a surface for repainting, 
painted (pan'ted), p. a. 1. Coated or covered 
with paint, or with designs executed in colors. 
How to the gude green-wood he 's gane, 
She to her painted bower. 
Lammikin (Child's Ballads, III. 308). 
2. In zool, highly colored; having a bright, 
rich, or varied coloration, as if artificially 
painted. 3. Depicted in colors. 
As idle as a painted ship 
Upon a painted ocean. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, ii. 
plane or other surface by 
Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath stell'd 
Thv beauty's form in table of my heart. 
Shak., Sonnets, xxiv. 
After dinner I visited that excellent painter Verrio, 
whose works in fresco in the King's palace at Windsor will 
celebrate his name as long as those walls last. 
Evelyn, Diary, July 23, 1679. 
Masury's Paint-mill (Section). 
aa.uppermillstone-bed; 
stone-bed (both beds are hollow 
dd, ef the lower bed is supported upon and 
a hollow vertical shaft /, a 
, pillars supporting a a; <:<:, lower mill- 
w and fitted with annular stone pates 
tated horizontally by 
, nd bevel-bearing ft si ; i i, the driving pul- 
ley and idler-pulley. The shaft/is splined in the gear f, and is 
ey an er-pu. , 
raised or lowered by the screw-gearing fi q. Water is run through the 
pipe r into the open spaces a a and c c in the millstone-beds, escaping 
through s andy this keeps the mill cool. The paint passes from 
Hence 4. Existing merely as a picture or rep- 
resentation; artificial; counterfeit; feigned; 
unreal; disguised. 
This Lecherye leyde on with a laughyng chiere, 
And with pryue speche and peynled wordes. 
Piers Plowman, (B), xx. 114. 
The grappling vigour and rough frown of war 
Is cold in amity and painted peace. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 105. 
Are the flames of another world such painted fires that 
they deserve only to be laughed at, and not seriously con- 
sidered by us? Stilliwjfleet, Sermons, I. ii. 
Painted bat, a bat of the genus Kerivmda : so called from 
the bright and varied colors, which make them appear 
Painter's colic, lead-colic. Palnter's-easel larva. 
See pluteus. Painter's etching. See etching. 
painter 2 (pan'ter), n. [A var. of panted, q. v. J 
A rope attached to the bow of a boat, and used 
to fasten it to a stake, a ship, or other object. cnute'is not shown. 
Lazy painter, a small rope used for securing a boat in .,,/,, 
smooth water.-To cut one's painter, to set one adrift; paint-mixer (pant'mik"ser), n. A cast-iron 
hence, to send one away ; hinder one from doing mischief yli n( Jer, fitted with a vertical shaft with pad- 
or injury. <j] eg uge d to mix paint with oil, turpentine, etc . 
painter 3 (pan'ter),)). [A var. of panther, q. v.] pa i n t-remover (pant're-mo"ver), . A caustic 
A panther: applied in the United States to the a ik a ii ne pas t e used to 'take off old paint in or- 
puma, cougar, or American lion, Felis concolor. der to p re p are the surface for repainting, 
painterlyt (pan'ter-li), a. [< painter* + -ly 1 .] paint-room (pant'rom), . The room in a the- 
Like a painter. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. ater w h ere the scenic artist works, 
paintership (pan'ter-ship), n. [< patnteri pa i n t r0 ot (pant'rot), n. The Carolina redroot, 
-skip.] The state or condition of being a paint- i MC j tnan theg tinctoria. 
er. [Rare.] paint-strake (pant'strak), n. _Naut., the up- 
Admit also a curious, cunning painter to be the chiefe permost strake of plank immediately below the 
painter; let him striue also to continue still in his chiefe plank-sheer. Also sheer-strulce. See stroke, 
paintourship, least another passe him in conning. /-^o-n'*-.i^\ fY MT? vieiniwe ntttn- 
Bp Gardiner, True Obedience, fol. 47. pamturet (pan tur), n. [_<. M-TJ. pemtae, peyn 
, . ture, peyntowre,poyntowre, < OF. pamture, petn- 
pamter-Stamer (pan'ter-sta ner), n. 1. A t ure ^p e i n ture = Sv.Pg-pintttra = lt.pint'ura, 
painter of coats of arms; a heraldic painter or ftlgo ' ( ^ ithout the nasal, which is due to inf.), 
draftsman. 2. A member of the livery c pittura, < L. pictura, painting: see picture and 
paint.] 1. The art or act of painting. 
Eight as she [Nature] kan peynte a lilie whit 
And reed a rose, right with swich peynture 
She peynted hath this noble creature. 
Chaucer, Doctor's Tale, 1. 83. 
Painted Bat (Kerivoula ficfa). 
like butterflies as they repose on the leaves of trees. 
Painted bunting, Pleclrophanes pictus, a very common 
longspur of western and northwestern America, of many 
variegated colors. Painted Cloth, tapestry, especially 
a cheap form of it. The designs were principally human 
figures, and had sage sentences issuing in scrolls from 
their mouths and otherwise introduced : hence the phrase 
was applied to hackneyed and trite rimes and sayings. 
A witty poesy, a saw that smells of the painted cloth. 
Rowley, Match at Midnight, i. 
Care not for those coarse painted-cloth rhymes made by 
the uniuersity of Salerne. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 57. 
Painted duck. See due*. Painted ftnch. See finch, 
and also cut under Passerina. Painted glass, (a) See 
glow-staining and glass, (6) Minute and delicate decora- 
tive work done in the middle ages on rondels and lens- 
shaped pieces of glass, in imitation of miniatures in manu- 
scripts : but few pieces remain, a collection having been 
brought together by the Marquis d'Azeglio in 1876. In a 
few cases rock-crystal was used instead of glass. Paint- 
ed goose. See goose. Painted hyena, the African hy- 
ena-dog. See cut under Lycaon. Fainted quail, any 
quail of the genus Excalfactoria. Painted ray, a batoid 
fish, Raia maculata. Painted snipe, any snipe of the ge- 
nus llhi/nchtea. 
painted-cup (pan'ted-kup), n. A plant of the 
genus Castilleia, primarily C. coccinea, the scar- 
let painted-cup: so called from the highly col- 
ored dilated bracts about the flowers. 
painted-grass (pan'ted-gras), n. Same as rib- 
bon-grass, 
painted-lady (pan-ted-la'di), n. 1. The thistle- 
butterfly, Vanessa (or Pyrameis) cardui, of an 
orange-red color spotted with white and black. 
See cut in next column. 2. The sweet pea, paintless (pant'les), a. 
Latnyrws odoratus, 
painter 1 (pan'ter), n. [< ME. payntour, < OF. 
peintour, peintor, painteor, also (nom.) peintre, 
pany or gild in London bearing this name. 
paint-frame (pant'fram), n. Theat., a movable 
iron framework used for moving scenes from 
the stage to the paint-bridge. 
paintiness (pan'ti-nes), n. The quality of be- 
ing painty, or overcharged with paint : said of 
a picture. 
painting (pan'ting), w. [< ME. peintunge, peynt- 
ynge, poyntyn/je; verbal n. of paint, v.] 1. The 
act, art, or employment of laying on paints. 
Specifically, the art of forming figures or representing ob- 
jects in colors on any surface ; or the art of representing, 
by means of figures and colors applied on a surface, ob- 
jects presented to the eye or to the imagination, in gen- 
eral in such a manner as to produce the appearance of paintwork (pant'werk), n 
relief and of distance. mirfsmnfi or articles. 
This is the very painting of your fear : 
This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,_ 
2. A picture ; specifically, a likeness, image, or Pj^j^^^f^.1, 1 ;^ 
scene depicted with paints. 
For righte as the Bokes of the Scripture of hem techen 
the Clerkes how and in what manere thei schulle beleeven, 
righte so the Ymages and the Peyntynges techen the lewed 
folk to worschipen the Seyntes. 
Mandevttle, Travels, p. 313. 
We visited divers other churches, chapells, & monas- 
teries, for the most part neatly built> & full of pretty 
payntings. Eoelyn, Diary, May 6, 1644. 
And with choice paintings of wise men I hung 
The royal dais round. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
3. Color laid on. 
This painting, 
Wherein you see me smeared. 
Shak., Cor., i. 6. 68. 
Encaustic painting. See encaustic. Florentine school 
of painting. See Renaissance. Graffito painting. See 
graffito. Gray cameo-painting, a method of glass-paint- 
ing in which the markings and shadings are very delicate, 
producing asort of light-gray monochrome. Ionic school 
of painting. See Ionic. Italian mural, etc., paint- 
ing. See the qualifying words. Muffle-painting. See 
muffle^. 
^ [< paint + -less."} 1. 
Without paint. 2! 'incapable of being painted 
or represented ; not to be painted or described. 
[Rare.] 
2. Paint or painted decoration. 
And zit there is at Alizandre a f aire Chirche, alle white 
withouten peynture ; and so ben alle the othere Chirches, 
that waren of the Cristene Men, alle white with inne. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 66. 
3. A picture ; a painting. 
Both the ymages and the peyntures 
Gan I biholde bysyly. Rom, of the Rose, 1. 142. 
Painting done on 
surfaces or articles. 
The paintwork and furniture looked as though the whole 
had been blackleaded. The Engineer, LXIX. 7. 
[< paint + -yi.] 1. Over- 
charged'' with paint ; displaying obtrusively or 
inharmoniously the colors which have been 
used or the manner of using them. 
His cattle are conscientiously painted, perhaps a little 
too painty. The Studio, III. 129. 
As the picture stands, ... it is refreshingly airy and 
sunny, and makes the pictures about it seem heavy and 
painty by comparison. The Nation, XLVIII. 313. 
2. Smeared or spotted with paint: as, his clothes 
are all painty. 
pair 1 (par), n. [< ME. paire, payre, peire, peyre. 
peir, peer, peere, per, a pair (applied to any 
number of like things), < OF. paire, peire, F. 
paire, f., also OF. pair, m., apair, couple, = Sp. 
Pg. par = It. paro, pajo = D. paar = MLG. 
par, MHG. par, Mr, G. paar = Icel. par = Sw. 
Dan. par, (L.par, apair, (par, equal: seepar 2 , 
peerf.'] 1. Two things of a kind, similar in 
form, identical in purpose, and matched or used 
together: as, a pair of gloves ; a, pair of shoes. 
Let it then suffice 
To drown one woe, one pair of weeping eyes. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 16SO. 
Two Pair of the purest white worsted Stockings you can 
get of Womens Size. Howell, Letters, I. i. 14. 
