Paint made by mixing a pigment with a drying oil such as linseed oil; = oil colour, n., oil paint n. at compounds 5. Often in plural. Esp. in oil(s)…

A substance or mixture used to prime wood, metal, canvas, etc.; a coat or layer of this. Cf. priming, n.1 9.

A thin coat of water-colour or distemper spread over a wall or similar surface; a preparation used for this purpose. Cf. whitewash, n.

transferred. in Painting. Without appearance of relief or projection. flat tint n. one of uniform depth or shade.

House-painting. A surface painted without gloss, so as to appear dead: see dead, adj. 13b. Also the pigment employed for this purpose. Cf. flatting…

Gilding and Housepainting. The action of flat, v.2 8. Also concrete. The overlaid coat.

Also applied to the pigment prepared for this process, and to the ground on which it is executed. In House-painting, whiting mixed with size and…

= calcimine, n. Also as v. transitive and intransitive, to whitewash with kalsomine.

(a) a thing which or (rarely) a person who fills a container with oil; (b) an opening or tube through which an engine is filled with oil; (c) a coat…

A trade name given to a kind of white or coloured wash for walls.

paint packed in a collapsible tube.

A make or kind of enamel paint.

= gloss paint n.

paint that contains varnish and gives a glossy finish.

a non-drip paint with the consistency of jelly.

‘natural silica, when dried and forming an almost impalpable powder, mixed with colours and oil’ (Annandale Imperial Dict. 1882).