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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.
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Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. --2
Kings ix. 30.
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2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with
colors; to diversify with colors.
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Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak.
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Cuckoo buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight. --Shak.
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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.
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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.
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Disloyal?
The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
--Shak.
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If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope.
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Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch;
draw; describe.
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Painted \Paint"ed\, a.

1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.
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As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean. --Coleridge.
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2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted
turtle; painted bunting.
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Painted beauty (Zool.), a handsome American butterfly
(Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors,

Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs
(Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually
bright-colored and more showy than the flowers.
Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and
is common in meadows.

Painted finch. See Nonpareil.

Painted lady (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See
Thistle butterfly.

Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater
tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow
markings beneath.
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delineated \delineated\ adj.

1. represented accurately or precisely. [Narrower terms:
diagrammatic, diagrammatical; drawn; painted]
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2. described in words with sharpness and detail or with vivid
imagery. Opposite of undelineated.

Syn: represented, delineate.
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painted
adj 1: coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [ant:
unpainted]

2: lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in
public he wore a painted smile"

3: having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" [ant:
unpainted]

4: having sections or patches colored differently and usually
brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert";
"a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
[syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color,
multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, {multi-
colored}, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted,
particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured]
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painted [peintid]
gemalt

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painted

angemalt; bemalt
painted

malte
painted

gemalt
painted

gestrichen; angestrichen

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