paintn.
/peɪnt/, U.S. /peɪnt/ 1.
a. A liquid which when spread over a surface dries to leave a thin layer of colour or protective coating; the dried film itself. Also: solid matter that may be spread in this way, usually when combined with a liquid vehicle (as water or oil).Recorded earliest in compounds.emulsion, gloss, latex, metallic, oil, powder paint, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint
paint1290
painturea1387
painting1591
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint
paint1290
1290–1 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 95 (MED) [Annual rent of a seld called] Peinteselde.
1454–5 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1890–1 (1891) 15 160 Item, of John peyntmaker xijd.
1612 R. Wiffin et al. Proc. Eng. Colonie vii. 51 in J. Smith Map Virginia Mr Scrivener..got 3. or 4. hogsheads of corne, and as much Red paint, which (then) was esteemed an excellent die.
1673 in Documents Colonial Hist. New Jersey (1880) I. 111 We doe acknowledge to have recd one-halfe anker of drinke, two match-coates,..[and] some painte.
1735 G. Berkeley Querist §118 A modern fashionable house,..daubed over with oil and paint.
1746 N.Y. Evening-post 31 Mar. 4/1 (advt.) To be sold by Obadiah Wells..Window-Glass of all Sizes..with Putty, Paints, and Oyl.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 829 When two coats of this paint have been laid on, it may be polished.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 250 Paint is commonly ground by means of a stone muller.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. iv. 90 The timber had once been painted, but the paint had fallen off.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 74/2 Even a new house looks shabby and down at the heels unless the paint is clean and in good condition.
1987 R. Ingalls End of Trag. 45 In putting the paint on the canvas he had been responsible for adding to the ugliness in the world.
b. In plural: (a set of) cakes or tubes of pigment as used by artists.
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1834 J. Clare Let. 12 Nov. (1985) 617 He has often wished me..to get him a drawing book..he has got a box of paints.
1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. v. 83 A table..covered with rolls of canvass, bottles of oil and varnish, palette, brushes, paints, &c.
1872 Punch 9 Nov. 196/1 Pail of whitewash and box o' paints will do the trick.
1958 S. Cloete Mask 34 He was a truly skilful young man with his paints and he could hardly keep his eyes off the picture he had painted.
2002 St. John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 22 Nov. b1 I looked at the paintings and said to Pat, ‘I'd like to try that,’ and she gave me a set of paints for Christmas.
c. In similative phrases, as the type of something fresh, stylish, etc.; later also as the type of something clever (perhaps originally through punning use of smart in this sense).
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1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xli. 340 Why, Oaklands, man, you are looking as fresh as paint; getting sound again, wind and limb, eh?
1873 A. Anderson Song of Labour 86 Here you'll lie through the night-time as snug as paint.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. viii. 65 You're a lad, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when you first came in.
1918 A. Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell 176 He stared..across at the grouped rustic buildings, all as pretty as paint.
1930 H. A. Bryden Enchantments of Field 187 Your hounds may be as handsome as paint, but if they fail you in nose, cry and hunting-power they are worse than useless.
1975 J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo ii. 40 Not always wholly agreeable, perhaps, but as clever as paint.
1993–4 Dance Internat. Winter 33/1 Under Polyakov's direction, the old war horse came up as fresh as paint and received some dazzling performances.
d. watching paint dry: in similative phrases, as the type of an extremely dull activity.
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1969 B. Knight in N.Y. Times 11 Mar. 53/3 We're excellent on defense, but as to our offense and scoring—well, there are three things they bring to mind. You can have your choice of watching a grease job, watching paint dry or watching our offense.
1972 R. W. Davis in Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 5 323 The book contains all the excitement of watching paint dry and reads like the history of a small teachers' college.
2000 Daily Tel. 29 May 21/5 Inspector Morse?.. It's like watching paint dry. What is this fascination with wandering around Oxford and listening to Wagner?
2. † c. Any of various materials added to caoutchouc in order to harden it. Obsolete. rare.
a. Cosmetics, make-up; (also) any colouring substance used to decorate the face or body.Now frequently in compounds, as face-, grease-, war-paint, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun]
litting?c1225
painting1351
paintryc1454
paintment1597
paint1600
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > paints or colours
tincturec1400
popping?c1450
ceruse1519
fard1540
parget1593
fucus1600
paint1600
blanch1601
complexion1601
priming colour1616
complexion-maker1619
whitewash1649
blanc1764
blusher1965
1600 R. Armin Quips upon Questions sig. E2 Hee's got into a boxe of Womens paint, And there he lyes, bathing him selfe so quaint.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 37 Paint their faces, and put Rice vpon the paint.
1660 J. Dryden To Sr R. Howard in R. Howard Poems sig. A7v His colours laid so thick on every place, As onely shew'd the paint, but hid the face.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Sept. (1965) I. 439 I have seen..Beauties..monstrously unnatural in their paint!
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xii. 250 If her Sleeve slipt above her Elbow..a Whiteness appeared which the finest Italian Paint would be unable to reach. View more context for this quotation
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxiii. 33 One has false curls, another too much paint.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots iii, in Pioneers of France in New World 31 The Indians..were in full paint, in honor of the occasion.
1917 E. Wharton Summer x. 145 She had lost her freshness, and the paint under her eyes made her face seem thinner.
1953 A. Hosain Phoenix Fled 51 The silver, the perfumes, powder and paint arranged on the toilet table fascinated her.
1992 I. Banks Crow Road xiii. 299 His whole face was bruised; kids with face-paints couldn't have matched all those colours.
b. Medicine. A solution or suspension of a medicine or antiseptic, applied directly to the skin.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > paint or varnish
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varnish1899
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 582 Both tar and pyrogallol work better as paints and varnishes than the chrysarobin.
1977 Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 27) 515/2 Two infants had a severe mucosal reaction to crystal violet paint.
1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) i. 30 [They] may be treated with weekly applications of 20% podophyllin paint and allowing it to dry..before washing it off.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for other specific purposes
screen cloth1603
wadding1627
heading1650
fusive1678
graving stuff1702
pounce1728
railing1740
retarder1753
seating1790
shelving1817
bending1823
shafting1825
wedging1825
rubber sheet1842
facing1843
piston packing1857
sheathing1859
screeding1864
paint1875
sleeving1923
landfill1969
presoak1969
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1596/2 Paint,..2. (Rubber-manufacture) Stuff mixed with caoutchouc..intended to harden it, [e.g.] Sulphate of zinc, whiting, plaster-of-paris, lampblack, pitch.
3. figurative. Colour, colouring; adornment; outward appearance or show.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > mere appearance
shroudc1175
frontc1374
appearancec1384
countenance?c1425
fard1540
show1547
habit1549
outside1578
glimpse1579
superficies?1589
species1598
out-term1602
paint1608
surface1613
superfice1615
umbrage1639
superficials1652
semblance1843
outer womana1845
outward man1846
patina1957
1608 M. Fotherby Fovre Serm. 17 What other thing is beauty, but the weake paint of a false colour, which with one shake of an ague is blasted.
1647 A. Cowley Written in Juice of Lemon in Mistress v A sudden paint adorns the trees.
1681 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1826) I. ii. 204 I have forborne paint and allurement, and writt truth.
a1715 M. Monck Marinda (1716) 17 Cou'd I the Paint of Words, like Strephon, use, The Aid of their false Varnish I'd refuse.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v. 522 Virtue's the paint that can make wrinkles shine.
1894 F. W. O. Ward Confessions Poet v. 201 The secret is variety, To be demure and dance, to please and pout, And wear the paint of piety.
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. i. 12 He hurriedly slapped the paint of diplomacy over a rather box-like plan he had conceived.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting
painting?c1225
painturec1230
paintryc1454
colouring1624
tableau1660
limning1689
paintc1710
tablature1713
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 299 On the Left side is a summer house wth paints of the seasons of ye yeare.
5. The action or an act of painting something.In quot. 1749 figurative.
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1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 68 A touching warmth, a tender finishing, beyond the expression of words, or even the paint of thought.
1904 N.E.D. (at cited word) Give it a paint, and it will look all right.
1997 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 14 Apr. ‘It needs a paint,’ Elizabeth said, glancing at the Bedford [bus].
2003 Fort Pierce (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 9 Mar. a23 These are not freighters coming in for a bottom job and quick paint to cover rust.
6. Indian paint: see Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b.
7. Chiefly U.S. In full paint horse. A piebald horse (see pinto n. 1).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > piebald
piebald1722
piet1756
paint1845
pinto1860
1845 Amer. Rev. Nov. 511/2 Most of them rode what are called ‘paint horses’; that is, the mustang, spotted with all the deeper colors on a milk-white ground.
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) In some of the Southern States, a horse or other animal which is spotted, is called a paint.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny vi. 96 Sam Kildrake's old paint hoss that killed hisself over-drinkin' on a hot day.
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 18 June 15/4 The Appaloosa somewhat resembles the paints, pintos and calicos, so popular with the plains Indians.
1995 Canad. Horseman Mar. 23/2 Paint horses are technically pintos... Paints have their own breed registry and their own show circuit.
8. Basketball. The rectangular area marked out around the basket at each end of the court; frequently in in the paint.
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1982 N.Y. Times 7 Feb. s1 1 The Fordham coach said, ‘I just told them, “Put four guys on the paint.”’ What he meant was having four men on defense clog the foul lane, which is painted the home colors in most arenas.
1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 61/1 The painted area—‘the paint’, as it is generally referred to—is a rectangle that is sixteen feet wide and extends nineteen feet into the court.
2003 Hume Moreland (Victoria, Austral.) Leader (Nexis) 13 Aug. 86 With Phelan strong in the paint and combining beautifully with the leaping Mike Spears..the Broncos held their nerve.
9. Computing. The function or capability of producing digital graphics; an application having this purpose; spec. = paint program n. at Compounds 2.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > graphics > production of
computer graphic1963
graphics1966
paint1984
1979 R. G. Shoup Digital Video 2 88 The videographics system (known informally as ‘SuperPaint’) was designed and built by Xerox in 1973 as an experiment in computer imagery and digital picture composition.]
1984 Computer Decisions (Nexis) Apr. 136 The most outstanding feature of the utility..is a ‘paint’ function for designing data-entry screens.
1991 Progressive Archit. Feb. 39/3 At the heart of image processing is software that allows a digitized photograph to be manipulated by an electronic ‘paint’ operation.
1993 Videography Winter m30/2 Not just video, but animation, graphics, and paint are finding a home on the Mac.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. † paint-cistern n. Obsolete† paint-mine n. Obsolete† paint-seld n. Obsolete rare
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1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Paint-Cisterns, in ships of war, are cisterns made of wood, and lined with lead, to contain the different kinds of paint.
paint cloth n.
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1886 All Year Round 28 Aug. 79 Snuffboxes, too, were found among the perfumes, paintcloths, and washes.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 120/3 Scouring Cloth—yard 0/5½ Scouring or Paint Cloths—each 0/4.
1997 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. a17 For me, reviews should be forums for news, entertainment and ideas. I want mine taped to refrigerators, not used as a paint cloth.
paint drum n.
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1920 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 499 The paint-drums..had been jolted bodily from their lashings.
2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 9 Jan. e2 The drummers..beat on pots, pans, skillets and 5-gallon plastic paint drums.
paint job n.
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1852 R. W. Vanderkiste Notes & Narr. Six Years' Mission i. 17 I was told about that red paint job a long while afterwards.
1926 Times 14 Apr. 10/5 (advt.) What does a paint job cost?
1997 Autoweek (Nexis) 23 June 20 There is still an export market, but it consists of cars in good running order that can be spruced up in Europe with a quick paint job.
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1868 Proc. Essex Inst. 29 In Essex County..there are also natural paint mines, although at present unwrought.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham i. 10 I've got a whole paint-mine out on the farm.
paint oil n.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of
oila1536
primera1650
wash1698
paint oil1727
flat tint1821
flat1823
flatting1823
distemper1837
kalsomine1840
oil filler1846
calcimine1864
tube-colour1881
Ripolin1899
gloss enamel1908
gloss paint1926
jelly paint1958
silicate paint-
1727 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1923) 18 227 Glass, Paint oile, Druggs and Stationary ware.
1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 12 It would take a great breadth from our bread-producing acres to yield so much flax seed as to supply our wants for paint-oil.
1950 Sci. Monthly Feb. 118/2 A principal paint company..is doing everything it can to encourage [soybean] production in South Africa in order to augment its supply of paint oil.
paint rag n.
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1856 Harper's Mag. Mar. 504/1 You've a great way of tearing up your shirts for paint-rags.
1938 N. Marsh Artists in Crime i. 4 The painter..found..a handkerchief that had been used as a paint-rag.
1996 20th Cent. Lit. 42 335 His last work, however splendid, will lodge in a cemetery, and Campton will presumably remain among his paint rags and dirty dishes.
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1290-1Peinteselde [see sense 1a].
paint water n.
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1904 N.E.D. at Paint sb. Paint-water.
1983 Cotswold Life Nov. 19/1 The infants practised wobbly letters, began to chant the Times Tables, and spilt paint water all over the floor.
paint-white n.
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1871 S. B. James Duty & Doctr. (ed. 3) 83 ‘Snow white’ is so far more forcible than mere paint-white, or ceiling-white.
b. Instrumental, objective, parasynthetic, similative, etc.
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paint grinder n.
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1797 Longworth's Amer. Almanac 108 Aimhoff,..paint-grinder.
1874 G. W. Samson Elem. Art Crit. vii. 328 M. Angeli Amerighi..in youth a paint-grinder for an artist at Milan.
1997 Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. Metallic paint was invented in the US by accident when a ball bearing shattered in a paint grinder.
paint-maker n.
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1454-5Peyntmaker [see sense 1a].
1877 Galaxy Apr. 566/1 The paint makers are grinding up Egyptian mummies for the fine brown color which they make when powdered.
1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty (BNC) Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers.
paint stoving n. and adj.
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1951 Engineering 26 Jan. 100/2 An infra-red paint-stoving plant..is being used for stoving No. 20 gauge aluminium panels for omnibus bodies.
1999 Brit. Plastics & Rubber (Nexis) 1 Oct. 51 A heat deflection rating high enough to withstand paint stoving.
paint thinner n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > thinners
thinner1904
extender1920
paint thinner1949
1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) 340 White spirit..is used as a paint thinner and for dry cleaning.
1990 Reader's Digest Aug. 145/1 His mind raced to the cargo of highly combustible paint thinner he was hauling.
(b) † paint-beplastered adj. Obsolete
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a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 272/2 Thy paint-beplaster'd forehead, broad and bare.
paint-dappled adj.
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1904 Windsor Mag. Jan. 234/1 He handed me a paint-dappled copper stencil-plate, two feet square.
1999 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 6 May 15 l. Highlights [of the art show] include Jerry Weiss's paint-dappled pond and river scenes.
paint-daubed adj.
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1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan vi. 91 Seven war-canoes were launched and manned by paint-daubed, befeathered warriors.
1992 C. Shields Republic of Love (1993) xxi. 225 These paint-daubed creatures are joyous acrobats.
paint removing adj.
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1904 N.E.D. at Paint sb. Paint-removing.
1992 Country Homes & Interiors Apr. 80/1 Each set..includes a three inch stripping knife, putty knife, paint removing tool,..and a seven inch roller set.
paint-speckled adj.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 427 Their paintspeckled hats wag.
1991 Callaloo 14 521 Gwenny happened to walk by in her paint-speckled smock.
paint-stained adj.
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1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxvii. 337 He flings off his own paint-stained shooting-jacket as he talks.
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 8 I'd put on my paint-stained jeans, well-holed sweater and ancient Barbour jacket.
paint-worn adj.
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1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 29 May 252/1 That comfortable paint-worn manginess about the handle.
1931 Geogr. Rev. 21 294 The large number of paint-worn and unpainted farmsteads bespeak the inability of the land to supply surplus funds.
2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 Dec. d1 You pass a paint-worn building with a sign that reads Green Mountain Community Centre.
C2. † paint-strake n. Nautical Obsolete the strake of planking lying immediately below the plank sheer.
paint-bridge n. Theatre a movable platform on which a scene-painter stands.
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1870 Boyd's Business Directory 589 (advt.) Every thing requisite for Stage purposes... Also, a Paint Bridge and Two Frames..to let.
1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 607/2 The scenes that are hurried along the grooves were never hung before a paint bridge. They are real.
1972 R. Ham Theatres 205 The paint bridge travelling against a fixed frame is less convenient for painters, but does not involve the structural inconvenience of a pit in the floor.
paint-burner n. rare an apparatus which uses a flame to burn or soften paint, so that it can be removed.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1597/1 Paint-burner, a blowpipe and lamp by which a flame is directed upon paint, to burn it off and prepare the surface for a new coat.
1995 Refinishing Metal Garden Furniture in misc.consumers.house (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Aug. I would like to remove the many coats of old paint first. We have a paint burner and I'm wondering if that would be the best way?
paint card n. a card showing a graduated range of paint colours; also figurative.
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1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) xiii. 266 A nervous man..with a blood pressure away up in the paint cards must live quietly.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 45 (caption) Sample paint-cards and materials are compared on camera with a standard grey-scale chart.
2002 J. Ray Step-ball-change x. 140 Kay put a cluster of fabric swatches and paint cards out on the table.
paint film n. a film of paint; (also) the protective layer which forms on the surface of paint when it dries.
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1922 Science 29 Dec. 747 Edward Longstreth medals were presented..to Dr. A. H. Pfund..for his cryptometer, paint film gauge, colorimeter and rotating sector.
1939 Science 3 Mar. 14/2 A previous method was the examination of a small section at the edge of the paint film with a microscope.
1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) ii. 87/1 Ferrous metals that are rusty will shed practically any paint film rapidly.
paint frame n. Theatre a movable metal framework for moving scenes from the stage to the paint-bridge.
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1863 in Shakespeare Q. (1987) 38 343 The Capitol of Rome on paint frame [on the back wall of the paint room at extreme upstage].
1901 C. Morris Life on Stage v. 31 Run upstairs to the paint-frame (three flights up) and ask the painter to put a little ad-libitum in this bottle for me.
2000 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 10 June f2 I started out in this business as a carpenter and painter. I worked on the paint frame for the Met Opera in New York because I was going to start from the bottom.
paint gun n. (a) a spray gun designed for the application of paint; (b) a weapon which fires paint; spec. an air gun firing capsules of paint, used in the game of paintball.
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1916 Electric Railway Jrnl. 2 Sept. 410/2 A large proportion of the railway equipment which requires painting is either so inaccessible or so irregular in shape that it is difficult to use the ordinary paint brush. The paint gun has, therefore, found an important field here.
1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog i. 12 They've made him chairman of a security company..armoured cars and paint-guns and pick-axe handles.
1989 Paintball Games Apr. 87 (advt.) All the..paintguns have been redesigned and improved.
2002 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 23 Aug. With wing mirrors, bumpers and the removable roof being sprayed from the same paint gun as the bodywork the car has a clean look about it.
paint kettle n. a portable paint container resembling a small bucket.
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1855 Rep. & Realities from Sketch-bk. Manager Rosine Assoc. (Rosine Assoc. of Philadelphia) 369 She had fallen in love..with a young painter, who had come to renovate the old building with his brush and paint-kettle.
1931 Times 13 May 30/1 (advt.) Ladders, decorators' brushes, paint kettles,..and numerous other effects.
1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) 58/3 To carry paint to a work site, decant a little into a cheap, lightweight plastic paint kettle.
paint mark n. a mark made with or by paint.
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1851 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. June 533 Her keen, quick black eyes, to which a blacker, crescent-shaped paint-mark under each of them,..gave a demoniacal expression.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 24 My eye was caught by a vermilion paint-mark on a gravestone of the chief's father.
2003 State Jrnl.-Reg. (Springfield, Illinois) (Nexis) 2 Mar. 12 Police noticed the..scratches and paint marks on the passenger side of her car, and Neal was ticketed.
paint-mark v. transitive to mark with paint.
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1849 Sci. Amer. 9 June 304/2 Venetian red is the best thing I ever saw used to paint mark sheep.
1992 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 249 96/2 Ants were not individually identifiable but..were paint-marked according to weekly age cohort.
paint mill n. a mill in which paints or pigments are ground or manufactured.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints > preparation of colours > machine for grinding
paint mill1755
1755 J. Smeaton Diary 5 July in Journey to Low Countries (1938) 41 I Also observed a paint mill which Had got a pair of Stones upon the Edge, grinding White lead.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 454 Curriers' shavings, which are used for cleaning paint-mills.
1991 Yankee Jan. 10/1 What you have is not a grain mill, but a paint mill.
paint mixer n. (a) a liquid in which pigment is suspended to create paint; (b) a thing (in later use esp. a machine) used for mixing paint; (c) a person who mixes paint.
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1864 Sci. Amer. 30 Jan. 74/3 Benzine..has taken the place of turpentine as a paint mixer.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 653/2 Paint Mixer, a can with shaft and paddles, resembling an upright churn. Used to mix paint with the necessary oil, turpentine, [etc.].
1988 D. Rees GCSE CDT—Design & Realisation xi. 98 (in figure) Paint mixer. For mixing paint and varnish.
2003 Los Angeles Times 6 May ii. 12 He took whatever jobs he could—paint mixer, delivery person, gold miner and bank teller.
paint pad n. a (usually fabric) pad backed with foam and mounted on a handle, used to apply paint to a surface.
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1974 Times 8 Mar. 29/4 (advt.) New Product. Paint Pad fabric on thick foam backing.
1977 Reader's Digest Bk. Do-it-yourself Skills & Techniques i. 10 Mohair paint pads are more economical in use than rollers and are particularly suitable for flat narrow surfaces such as window frames.
1992 Mech. Products & Tools July 1286/2 Easy to apply by paint-pad, brush, paint-roller, sponge or by spraying.
paint program n. Computing an application which facilitates the creation of digital graphics.
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1979 SIAM Rev. 21 120 The PAINT program developed at the University of Utah and New York Institute of Technology. As a response to a desire to do commercial animation by computer, a very high level language was developed which could be learned easily and used by commercial animators.
1982 Computer Graphics July 277/1 The paint program consists of processes which handle the graphics tablet, track an iconic cursor, paint a selection of brushes..and implement the user interface.
1994 NewMedia Aug. 28/1 MediaShop is composed of several modules: a 24-bit paint program with onion-skinning and anti-aliasing, etc.
paint remover n. = paint stripper n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > remover
paint remover1882
stripper1937
paint stripper1954
1882 Manufacturer & Builder Mar. 70/1 A preparation, of which potash and soda are the principal components,..is said to be a perfect paint remover.
1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 133 Manufacturers..Paint Remover.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xx. 131 She offered me one of those menthol cigarettes that taste like paint remover.
1991 Do it Yourself (BNC) Sept. 5 The surface should then be damped again with the paint remover.
paint roller n. a roller covered in an absorbent material for applying paint to a surface.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > product of painting > relating to application of
paintbrush?1762
paint roller1935
masking tape1936
1935 Pop. Mech. July 81/1 Decoration of interior walls in two colors, or more, may be accomplished by using a paint roller.
1951 Sci. Monthly Oct. p. iv/1 An all-purpose paint roller uses a..dynel cover,..said to clean easier than lamb's wool.
1971 Handyman Which? Nov. 25/2 There are lots of paint rollers and their prices vary..from 28p to about £2.
1990 Which? Apr. 215/1 What type of paint roller should I use with solid emulsion?
paint room n. (a) a room in which paints are stored; (b) Theatre a room in a theatre in which the scene-painter works; (c) a place in which manufactured items are painted.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > where paints are stored
paint room1850
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxix. 146 How often I supplicated the inexorable Brush, captain of the paint-room, for just one brushful of his invaluable pigment.
1888 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 438/1 The floor of the paint-room is a platform called the paint-bridge, which extends across the stage and can be raised or lowered.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 326 But here, in a ‘paint room’..a room without a single window and only one door, a hundred men were crowded upon mattresses on the floor.
2003 Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) (Nexis) 6 Mar. 2 b Bill Doyle, co-owner of the building, said it is used as a preparation and paint room for Diamond Mowers.
paintroot n. the Carolina redroot, Lachnanthes caroliniana (formerly L. tinctoria), the rhizome and roots of which have been used as the source of a red dye.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > other plants
one-blade1578
one-leaf1578
spiderwort1597
star of Bethlehem1629
ague-grass1687
unifoil1688
redroot1709
bellwort1785
eucomisc1804
uvularia1836
paintroot1853
twisted stalk1856
Barbados onion1866
fly-poison1866
shepherd's joy1884
onion weed1909
mondo1956
1853 Sci. Amer. 25 June 321/1 Florida paint root... The root colors the flesh, bones, and marrow, of hogs that feed upon it.
1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 461/1 Lachnanthes... The rhizome..bears a large number of long, coarse, somewhat waxy, deep-red roots, yielding a red dye, to which its popular names of Paintroot and Redroot are due.
1972 Amer. Midland Naturalist 87 450 A slightly higher zone which is intermediate between prairie habitat and swamp woodland... Paintroot (Lachnanthes tinctoria) commonly occurs in this zone.
paint scraper n. (a) a person who scrapes paint from walls; (b) an implement with a hard edge, used for scraping paint from a surface.
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1930 C. McAlister Eugene V. Debs, Man Unafraid ii. 14 Old Man Peddle told Gene to go along and thereby unwittingly dismissed forever his egregious paint scraper.
1937 Jrnl. Ecol. 25 484 For observations of the sequence of recolonization on artificially denuded rock surfaces, areas of rock surface..were scraped clean with a paint scraper.
2001 Chatelaine (Electronic ed.) 21 May Using a slightly blunt metal paint scraper—sharp edges may damage the wood—remove the bulk of the paint.
paint shop n. (a) a place in which paint is made and sold; (b) a place in which manufactured items (esp. cars) are painted.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > workshop > [noun] > where paint is manufactured
paint shop1847
society > occupation and work > workplace > workshop > [noun] > where painting is carried out
paint shop1847
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > product of painting > relating to application of > where painting is carried out
paint shop1847
1847 Sci. Amer. 1 May 256/1 This oil can be always procured ready boiled at the paint shops.
1899 Sat. Evening Post 10 June 795 Eight hundred tons of white lead are ground in the paint shop every twelve months.
1911 Times 13 Dec. 27/2 A new combined boiler and tender shop..has been erected, and also a large locomotive paint-shop.
1973 Times 18 May 26/5 By eliminating the solvents and attendant fumes, Fiat said the danger to the lungs of paintshop employees is sharply reduced.
2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 18 May 7 For painting the handrails..Zebo black grate polish, available from paint shops, ironmongers and DIY stores.
paint stick n. an implement used to apply paint to a surface; spec. a water-soluble paint used like a crayon.
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1860 Sci. Amer. 26 May 340/2 The latter is dressed in the usual manner; but the runner (should the face ever get untrue, which will seldom happen) must be dressed by being turned round on the spindle under a stationary paint stick, which will indicate the high points and bring the face perfectly true with the spindle.
1889 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 2 221 A hollow dish was taken and the paint rubbed in it, the round paint stick was drawn from the case, and the young men sitting on the ground face to face, entered the second stage of their decoration.
1987 A. Theroux Adultery 121 I did several paintings, a whimsical thing with paint sticks entitled Chickens Biting Light, [etc.].
paint stone n. a stone which, when ground, yields powder that can be used as pigment; this powder.
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1797 J. Barrow in D. Fairbridge Lady Anne Barnard (1924) 41 I send you a specimen of a paint-stone, which you may break if you like—you will find within a fine impalpable powder which when mixed with oil serves all the country people here as a paint for their houses, waggons etc.
1896 13th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1891–2 115 The articles known as paint-stones scarcely come under the head of implements... Most of them were used merely to furnish paint.
1926 P. W. Laidler Tavern of Ocean 97 For paint to preserve the woodwork of his carts and waggons, the farmer mixed ‘paint stones’ (natural ochres) with oil.
1994 Trav. Guide 1994 Newfoundland & Labrador 202/2 Various artifacts including..paint stones and a bone whistle have been discovered with the body.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Paint-strake, the uppermost strake of plank immediately below the plank-sheer.
paint stripper n. a substance for dissolving and removing old paint from furniture, woodwork, etc.; (also) a device which blows hot air on to paint to soften it, so that it can be easily scraped off.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > remover
paint remover1882
stripper1937
paint stripper1954
1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 95/1 When paintwork is old and flaked, it is as well to remove all the paint. This can be done either with a blowlamp or a chemical paint-stripper.
1971 Morning Star 13 Apr. 4/5 While this may only be washing-up liquid,..it could well be something far more dangerous, like bleach or paint-stripper.
1993 East Anglian Daily Times 15 Mar. 5/1 The haul included two drills, a sander, a paint stripper, a circular saw, a hedge trimmer and a strimmer.
paintwork n. chiefly British painted surfaces in a building, vehicle, etc.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > product of painting
paintwork1850
1850 W. Colton Deck & Port 184 We..scrubbed our paint-work; cleaned our brass rails; [etc.].
1879 Mind 4 411 The dog..was ill... The mistress sat up all night with it..to prevent it from tearing the paint-work.
1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall i. 3 The mailboat..glided gracefully in, her white paintwork stained a rich orange.
2000 Max Power Dec. 219/2 If..you can spot dodgy paintwork, it could be a sign that the car has had a shunt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† paintadj.
Obsolete.
Painted.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [adjective]
paintc1475
superficialized1623
depainted1706
picted1866
aerosoled1958
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 196 No proude peniles with his peynte sleve.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 117 (MED) May he gett a paynt slefe or a broche..Wo is hym that hym grefe.
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 194 Þat cloister..was..All y-hyled wiþ leed lowe to þe stones, And Y-paued wiþ peynt til.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
paintv.1
/peɪnt/, U.S. /peɪnt/ 1. † d. transitive. To set down (written text). Obsolete.† g. intransitive. To form a (good, bad) subject for painting. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To represent (an object, scene, etc.) or portray (a person or thing) on a surface, using paint or other colouring matter.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]
depaint?c1225
paintc1275
figurec1380
resemblea1393
portraya1398
represent?a1425
impicture1523
portrait1548
shadow1553
to paint forth1558
storize1590
personate1591
limn1593
propound1594
model1604
table1607
semble1610
rendera1616
to paint out1633
person1644
present1649
to figure out1657
historize1668
to fancy out1669
to take off1680
figurate1698
refer1700
display1726
depicture1739
depict1817
actualize1848
the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > paint [verb (transitive)]
paintc1275
depaintc1320
englose1430
bepaint1567
superficialize1593
repaint1600
overpaint1611
repassa1806
colour-wash1850
distemper1870
respray1880
to paint out1902
aerosol1979
society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint
paintc1275
englose1430
glair1563
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > beautify the skin or complexion [verb (intransitive)] > paint or colour
paintc1275
farda1450
parget1581
to mug up1859
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)]
meteOE
depaint?c1225
paintc1275
stain1519
to paint out1553
depeinct1579
limn1593
impaint1598
pencil1610
stroke1624
depencil1631
brush1897
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 76 (MED) Þin eȝene boþ colblake & brode, Riȝt swo ho weren ipeint mid wode.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2127 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 167 Ȝwane men peyntiez [a1325 Corpus Cambr. peint] an Anletnesse, [etc.].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 13 I haue peynt [?a1475 anon. tr. haue made..in picture; L. Depinxi] a wel faire man, and am my self a foule peyntour.
a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 19 Hym to poynte, as he an ymage were.
a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 5770 In hys blasoun, verrayment, Was jpaynted a serpent.
c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 69 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 210 He send til hyme þane a paynteore, þat rycht sle wes in portratore, to paynt his fygur propirly.
1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 188 The lyttle byrdes whiche the lymmers of bookes are accustomed to paynte on the margentes of churche bookes.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxi. 257 A little child [who]..appeared in the same fashion as we are accustomed to paint Angells.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 220 He saw in order painted on the Wall, Whatever did unhappy Troy befall.
1774 A. Gerard Ess. Genius iii. vi. 405 It was the character of Pyreicus, that he painted only mean subjects, but painted them with great beauty.
1805 R. Southey Pious Painter i. i But chiefly his praise And delight was in painting the Devil.
1875 P. G. Hamerton Round my House (1876) ii. 31 Picturesque old houses,..which an artist would be glad to paint.
1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. iv. 65 I can't really do anybody but Papa, and I can't make a living painting him.
1992 W. Mitchell For Art's Sake i. iii. 63 Roger would paint her often, alternating between her and the Roche de la Vièrge as his subjects.
b. To adorn or decorate (a wall, etc.) with a painted subject. Usually in passive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] > adorn with painting
paintc1300
portraya1398
porturec1535
c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 27 Ȝwere beon þi castles and..chaumbres and þi riche halles, Ipeynted with so riche floures.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 313 (MED) His schippe..was i-peynt [L. depicta] wiþ a dragoun.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1414 (MED) Some of þo wynly wones were..feyr peynted with frute & floures.
a1500 (?a1325) Otuel & Roland (1935) 1232 (MED) A schyld..y-paynted, it was with mahoun Off gold, Iubiter, and yk platoun.
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xxvij All the body of the Churche..be paynted with storyes from the begynnynge of the worlde.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xxxiii. 344 Then..he would shew you euerie leafe to be painted with birds.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 82 Their Churches are many of them well set forth and painted with the represents of Saints.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 238 The Library painted with a rare Fresco which is yet rauishing and liuely after two hundred yeares.
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. iii. 154 The Ceiling was lofty, and painted with the Story of Orpheus and the Bacchanalian Dames.
1784 J. Cook Voy. Pacific Ocean II. iii. 267 A kind of additional prow painted with the figure of some animal.
1844 A. P. de Lisle in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. vii. 122 A vaulted ceiling painted with semi-Gothick patterns.
1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere iii. 13 A long space of wall gaily painted..with similar subjects to those of the frieze outside.
1904 Daily Chron. 9 June 3/2 A cabaret, painted with flowers, fruit, and trophies..by Lene père.
1991 D. Mortman Wild Rose iii. xx. 383 Its walls, luxuriously painted with leaves and animals..were emblazoned with geometric motifs.
c. intransitive. To practise the art of painting; to make pictures.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (intransitive)]
paintc1385
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2087 Wel koude he peynte [v.r. peynten] lyfly, that it wroghte.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 175 Wel coude he peynte [Fr. paindre]..That sich ymage coude make.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 509 (MED) He sent..for euery ymagour..& euery purtreyour Þat coude drawe, or with colour peynt, With hewes fresche.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 298 (MED) It were a wondir thing & queynt A man that nevir had sight to peynt.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 651/2 He can paynte and portrer as wel as any man in al this countray.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. iv. sig. G2 I would haue A Lady, indeed, t'haue all, Letters, and Artes, Be able to discourse, to write, to paynt . View more context for this quotation
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xxxiv. 50 To grind Gold to Write and Paint.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. li. 6 The women have them all now a-days, George, and teach 'em the ton; that is to dress, and dance, and paint.
1867 Nat. Encycl. I. 857 Antonello de Messina..the first Italian who painted in oils.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 214 I thought an artist meant a fellow who painted.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage li. 261 I pity..the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.
1990 Eton 1440–1990 (Eton College) 12 Increasing numbers paint, pot, or sculpt in the Drawing Schools.
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society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)]
awriteeOE
writeOE
speak?c1225
paintc1400
conscribec1487
blecka1500
cipher1565
letter1570
characterize1581
character1589
bewrite1660
scriven1680
quill1768
screeve1851
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. 298 If false latyne be in þe lettre, þe lawe it inpugneth, Or peynted parenterlinarie [c1400 C text par-entrelignarie].
J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 63 In Grwe Y had yt wrytyn, lymnyd bryght With lettyrrys off gold..&offten I enqwyryd of letteryd clerkys, Qwat yt myght be, that poyntyd was with so merwulus werkys.
1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 174 Quhilkis markis nor descriptioun..is on na wyise specifiit, discrevit, nor payntit in nor upoun the said libell as aucht to haue bene.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 142 These are not words that one reades, and are painted upon paper: they are felt, and received within the heart.
e. transitive. To create (a picture) with paint. Also in extended use.
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1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 3 He shewyd the pepyll a pictur poyntyd on a clothe, of the passion of our lorde.
1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xi. 86 Zeuces..To paint a picture of most rare renowne, Did many of the fairest damsels make To stand before him bare from foote to crowne.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §108. 122 A Picture Painted with great variety of Colours, affects the Touch in one uniform manner.
1780 J. O'Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town ii. 25 The portrait of Beatrix Constantia Contacroyana, painted by that master.
1835 W. Irving Crayon Misc. II. 89 Not long after my departure from Abbotsford, my friend Wilkie arrived there, to paint a picture of the Scott family.
1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) II. vii. 421 The historian sinks into the annalist..instead of solving a problem, he merely paints a picture.
1899 V. M. Crawford Stud. Foreign Lit. 50 Daudet was able to paint a real sober picture of the Meridional in Numa Roumestan.
1969 K. Clark Civilisation vi. 143 He was anxious that Holbein should paint pictures of his English friends.
1996 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Mar. i. 20 The report paints a picture of a world where both the risks involved and their time spans are routinely underestimated.
f. transitive. Of light or shadow: to create (an image) upon a surface as if by painting.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > of light
paint1670
1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1030 You have believed the images which appear in the Eyes to be painted on the Retina, whereas they proceed from the reflexion made on the exteriour of the Cornea.
1717 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 450 The Rays..by their Covergence..may paint the Image of the said Point upon the Middle of the Retina of each Eye.
1825 Lancet 12 Nov. 247/1 Everything we see is painted inverted on the retina.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics ii. 6 The green light from G..and the blue light from B will fall upon the paper..thus painting upon the paper an inverted image of the object.
1891 E. Arnold Light of World ii. 115 The shadow of His outstretched arms..painted a cross Black on the wall.
a1901 W. E. Channing Coll. Poems (1967) v. 925 The bluebird sits on the locust-bough Whose shadow is painted across thy brow.
1992 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 337 296/2 Landmark guidance cannot be explained by a single stored image of landmarks painted on the retina.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > make subject for painting [verb (intransitive)]
paint1827
1827 Lady Morgan Diary 23 Nov. in Memoirs (1862) II. xvii. 247 The comfortless, unaccommodating reality of those times which paint and write so well.
1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1896) xliii. 123 War was always detrimental... But in old times..it painted well, sang divinely, furnished Iliads.
2.
a. transitive. To cover the surface of (something) with paint, as decoration or protection; to colour with a wash or coating of paint; to stain. In later use frequently with colour adjective as complement.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colour [verb (transitive)]
dyea1000
huec1000
litc1230
coloura1325
paint?c1335
infecta1398
taint1471
recolour1566
becolour1567
tinct1594
colorate1599
colourize1611
tincture1616
tint1791
encolour1850
pigment1896
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 155 (MED) Þou berist a box on þi hond ipeintid al of gold.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9912 (MED) Þis castell..es painted a-bute þe vtter side O thre colurs.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 137 Many faire halles and chaumbres, paynted with gold and azure.
a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 75 (MED) So was þe glode wyt-in gay, al wyt golde payntyde.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 8 Þis ymage that is þis [read þus] y-paynt.
1576 A. Fleming in G. Whetstone Rocke of Regard Pref. sig. ¶¶j A Castle of comfort and passing delight..painted with colours of pure blacke and white.
1608 R. Johnson Hist. Seuen Champions Christendome (new ed.) i. iii. sig. Dii The outward wals and buildings painted with gold.
1671 P. M. Hairy-giants iii. 9 The entrance to his House, painted with a sort of red Paint, like to our Oker, but much brighter colour.
1735 M. Barber Poems Several Occasions 67 [He] paints his Window Bars with Blue.
1754 G. G. Beekman Let. 30 Sept. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 225 The Sloop was Small with Quarter deck new painted Black white and red had all new sails with some Boards not painted tacked all round above the gunnal.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vi. 63 As a cottage it was defective, for..the window shutters were not painted green. View more context for this quotation
1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. vi. 180 To paint a new window for the gallery.
1879 H. James Confidence II. xx. 2 There was a large blank wall before his window, painted a dirty yellow and much discoloured by the weather.
1923 W. Cather Lost Lady ii. vii. 154 Next summer, I am going to paint the house.
1991 Do it Yourself Fall 33/3 I painted it with a lavender latex enamel paint.
b. transitive. figurative and in extended use. To colour using other means; to impart colour to.
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c1390 G. Chaucer Physician's Tale 32 Nature..kan peynte [v.r. paynte] a lilye whit, And reed a rose.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 6 (MED) Pieres þe plowman was paynted al blody.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 875 With his blod hireselve gan she peynte [v.r. pente].
1595 tr. G. de S. Du Bartas First Day of Worldes Creation 38 Exempted onely from the massaker, All such as had their doore posts painted red, With bloud of lambe slaine for the passeouer.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxi. 56 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 88 Ages snow my hed hath painted.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 187 Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise..Till the Sun paint your fleecie skirts with Gold. View more context for this quotation
1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 533 If God so cloathes the Fields, so paints the Flowers.
1814 Sporting Mag. 43 70 His eyes were much swollen and painted.
1851 R. C. Trench Poems 155 Where the sunbeam..wound..to paint With interspace of light and colour faint That tesselated floor.
1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xix. 147 She had given him one grand dream. Every mile of his run..was painted with the colors of that hope.
1987 M. Green Squanicook Eclogues 11 In airing upstairs farmhouse rooms, the sunlight paints A sudden gold-leaf on the dresser drawers and wall.
c. transitive. figurative. To adorn as with colours; to beautify, decorate, ornament. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament
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c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 445 Pride of the table appeereth..ofte..in excesse of..disshmetes brennynge of wilde fyr and peynted and castelled with papir.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 176 (MED) He can purtreye wel þe pater-noster and peynte it with aues.
c1450 Contin. Lydgate's Secrees (Sloane 2464) 1542 (MED) I haue with Tully gadryd no fressh flours, The Chaar of ffronescis to paynte in dewe manere.
a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 1132 All the wyndowes and all the wallis With cristall was peynted.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 883 Ladi-smockes all siluer white, Do paint the Meadowes with delight.
1738 J. Wesley Hymns iv All the Flowers that paint the Spring Hither their still Musick bring.
1750 W. Shenstone Rural Elegance 60 Or humble harebell paints the plain.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 5 The daisy's flower Again shall paint your summer bower.
1882 Cent. Mag. May 30/1 For me the sunlight paints the dew.
1987 S. Sanchez Under Soprano Sky 42 The spreading rain of spring paints new stripes toward reclaimed targets.
3. † c. intransitive. To change colour due to sudden emotion. Frequently in to paint pale (also white): to turn pale. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To apply colour to (the face or body); spec. to apply cosmetics to. Also reflexive.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > beautify (the skin or complexion) [verb (transitive)] > paint or colour
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to mug up1859
highlight1935
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 4 Kings ix. 30 Jezabel..peyntyde [L. depinxit] hir eȝyn with strumpetis oynement.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 204 Þer wiþ wommen peynteþ hemself for to seme faire of colour.
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 3 (MED) Þese wymmen..peynten hem self with crafti wateres.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 434 Wemen haue wille in þere wilde youthe To fret him with fyn perle, & þaire face paint.
c1588 in P. Hulton & D. B. Quinn Amer. Drawings John White (1964) II. Pl. 47 The manner of their attire and painting them selues when they goe to their generall huntings, or at theire Solemne feasts.
1599 G. Chapman Humerous Dayes Myrth sig. D2v She is very faire, I thinke that she be painted.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 30 Jezebel heard of it, and shee painted her face, and tyred her head, and looked out at a window. View more context for this quotation
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. To paint ones face as Gentle-women do, blancketten.
1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans viii. 115 The Women..Paint their Hands and Feet with a certain Plant dried..to Powder.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iii. xix. 190 If painting the face were as much the fashion in England as it is in France, could you think it lawful for a good Christian to comply with such a fashion?
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iv. 85 Several of the men and women had their faces painted red.
1860 J. Abbott Amer. Hist. I. vii. 204 Ochres and other pigments which they used to paint their faces with.
1974 K. Amis Ending Up xxiii. 110 Used to paint her nails and put too much rouge on her cheeks.
1995 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Oct. e1/6 Mod girls..painted their lips white and rimmed their eyes in black.
b. intransitive. To apply colour to the face or body; spec. to make use of cosmetics.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 28014 (MED) Yee leuedis..studis hu your hare to heu, Hu to dub and hu to paynt.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Hiii To peint as women do, farder.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 189 Bid her paint her selfe an inch thicke, to this she must come.
1647 J. Hall Poems i. 3 If you..besaint Old Jesabel for shewing how to paint.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses i. 7 She scorn'd to Patch and Paint.
1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 92/2 The women of all ranks & ages paint; they are generally very handsome.
1846 M. B. Betham-Edwards Jrnl. Aug. in A. R. Johnston et al. Marching with Army of West (1936) 165 They paint [their faces] with a red blossom cultivated for the purpose and allow it to remain until it wears off.
1862 W. Collins No Name II. iv. iii. 187 ‘Shall I paint?’ she asked herself... ‘The rouge is still left in my box.’
1907 Daily Chron. 14 May 4/7 In the eighteenth century..a woman high in artificial colour was not said to ‘paint’. She painted only if she used white... Now, on the other hand, no woman ‘paints’ if she uses a powder-puff, but if she rouged—ah, then, it would be a case of ‘paint’.
1979 J. Rathbone Joseph i. xiii. 130 She painted much, especially round her eyes.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (intransitive)] > become or turn pale
blakea1225
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bleykec1327
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [verb (intransitive)] > blush
redOE
rudOE
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rose1922
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. Dviiv There was a pryckemedenty Sat lyke a seynty And began to paynty As though she wolde faynty.
a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women i. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 2 I'll kiss thee into colour, Canst thou paint pale so quickly.
a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 45 Look to he Widow, she paints white, some Aqua Coelestis for my Lady.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. vi. 35 in Wks. II Mrs. Fi. You make me paint, Sr. Wit. The' are faire colours, Lady, and naturall!
4.
a. transitive. To depict, describe, or call to mind through the use of words; to set forth as in a painting.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] > in detail or graphically
descrive?c1225
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Kodak1892
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 27 (MED) In þe firste book of þis werk..mappa mundi is purtrayed and i-peynt [?a1475 anon. tr. describede; L. describitur].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 12 Poetes peyntide þe winde wiþ wynges.
?1406 T. Hoccleve La Mâle Règle 247 in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 63/2 Thogh fauel peynte hir tale in prose or ryme.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 16484 (MED) His fest suld last xl days, with all ryches and ryalte Þat any man covth poynt or prays.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxixv Oh vnsatiable woulues: howe ryghte..haue the Prophetes and Apostles..paynted and set you forth in your colours.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. Fiiv Reueng giue my toong freedom, to paint her part.
a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1844) V. 667 I have continued..to paint out everie one of you..in youre owne colours.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 453 What Words can paint those execrable Times!
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. ii. iv. 164 Words cannot paint what I feel on the Reflection, that my Happiness shall be the ultimate End of all your Actions. View more context for this quotation
1783 G. Crabbe Village i. 4 I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 308 I..try to paint, in poor and feeble words, a few of the features and objects.
1984 J. Morgan Agatha Christie ix. 119 Agatha later painted in Unfinished Portrait a reproduction of her frustrations at this stage in her marriage.
1997 M & S Mag. Summer 114/2 The nuances of Japanese family life are painted with such compassion.
b. transitive. To represent or portray in a false or negative way. With clause as object, or with object and complement, or object and infinitive. Frequently in passive.Frequently in not so black as he is painted and variants.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
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betell?c1225
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to blow up?a1400
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noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
infame1483
injury1484
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rot1890
calumny1895
ding1903
bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [phrase] > not so evil as thought to be
not so black as he is painteda1522
a1522 G. Douglas Aeneis (1957) iii. 73 He pantis Eneas to be a Prince indued with all nobyl..vertewis.
1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. H3 Diuels are not so blacke as they be painted..nor women so wayward as they seeme.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 291 As the Proverb saith, The Lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 480 Do but paint an Angel black, and that is enough to make him pass for a Devil.
1723 A. Hill Henry V. iv. i. 48 If I am half so dear to Henry's Wishes, As his too-flattering Tongue has painted me, He will not, cannot, then, deny my Prayer.
1797 R. Cumberland False Impressions v. 62 Algernon is not that worthless man, which calumny has painted him to be.
1811 M. Brunton Self-control I. xviii. 384 The happy dream was dispelled that painted him the master of Laura's affections.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. vii. 121 ‘She's not so—so red as she's painted,’ says Miss Beatrix.
1852 R. Fortune Journey Tea Countries China vii. 131 The Chinese are certainly bad enough, but, like other rogues, they are sometimes painted worse than they really are.
1896 R. W. Buchanan Compl. Poet. Wks. (1901) II. ix. 250 Marlowe, though my favourite pupil, Painted me a very Monster, Corybantic, cloven-footed, Insolent and goggle-eyed.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 562/1 He was constrained to admit that the Turks were by no means so black as they had been painted.
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State v. 167 In print..Ryder was often painted as a stupid Northern oik.
c. transitive. Chiefly literary. Of an emotion, personal quality, etc.: to manifest vividly in a person's appearance, demeanour, etc. Chiefly in passive.
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1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. S.iii Lo, death is painted in his face.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Hh.iiiv [He] meeteth her in ye teeth, with such heauy passion peinted in his eies.
a1631 J. Donne Songs & Sonnets, & Misc. in Compl. Wks. (1872) II. iii. 252 Looke vpon the faithfull louer: Grief stands painted in his face.
1661 W. Lower Enchanted Lovers iv. vi. 79 His valour seems yet painted in his face.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. i. 344 So strongly was this Good-nature painted in his Look, that it was remarked by almost every one who saw him. View more context for this quotation
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xiv. §1 If even each atom of your pain could be painted on my mind.
a1796 J. Macpherson Poems of Ossian (1805) II. v. 489 Swift at the word the obsequious herald flies, His message painted in his joyful eyes.
1800 B. Thompson tr. K. von Reitzenstein Count Koenigsmark iii. 46 Love was painted in his timid, bashful look. Love sparkled in his large majestic eye.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. iv. 11 Desire Was painted in my looks.
1889 G. H. Boker Mem. T. Buchanan Read 26 The purpose of his ardent soul Was painted in his face.
1963 A. Baron Lowlife vii. 55 All the time her manner was a dead give-away. Her voice was too animated. A smile of pathetic eagerness was painted on her face.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)] > in representation
paintc1390
fucate1535
flatter1581
embroider1614
over-picturea1616
heighten1731
overpaint1749
overtell1755
overcolour1811
overdrawa1817
dramatize1823
sensationalize1863
overdress1866
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > improve appearance
paintc1390
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varnish1571
to gild over1574
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apparel1615
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lustre1627
candidate1628
varnish1641
lacquer1688
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fineer1765
veneer1847
superficialize1851
gloss1879
window dress1913
beglamour1926
sportswash2012
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 1022 Thow shalt nat eek peynte thy confessioun by faire subtile words to couere the moore thy synne.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 284 (MED) Trowthe hise wordes wol noght peinte.
a1425 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 69 (MED) In þin answer no þing þou peynt To me, for-whi I knowe þi þouȝt.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4427 He can practise & paynt & polisch his wordis.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Civ Paynte to a purpose good countenaunce I can.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Bij Rethorique at large paintes well the cause, And makes that seme right gay.
1573 J. Tyrie Refut. Ansuer Knox 3 Lyes, with wordes craftelie paintit and coloret, als conuenient to begyle the simple readar.
1638 T. Nabbes Totenham Court iv. iii. 46 What an Oratour Is Sin? that paints it selfe with golden words Of pleasure and delight.
1715 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion I. 118 Their Ills are painted to deceive our view, And Pow'r gives Sanction to whate'er they do.
1778 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) viii. 443 The writers..where taste has begun to decline, paint and adorn every object they touch.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Torrismond i. iii, in Poems (1851) I. 76 Because men's hearts are shallow, and their nature So mean..They needs must paint and swaddle them in lies.
a. intransitive. To talk speciously or flatteringly; to feign. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > have an appearance of, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] > talk speciously
slickc1250
paintc1450
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 164 What nede y, lo, to paynt or make it koy?
a1500 How Good Man taught his Son (Cambr.) 113 in Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philol. (1889) 2 32 (MED) I wyll neyther glose ne paynte, But warne the on an other syde.
a1529 J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1856) I. 10 What shuld I flatter? what shuld I glose or paint?
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 655/2 I peynt, I glose or speke fayre, je adule.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 488 You leye, you paint, you faine.
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob of Arcot's Private Debts 70 Do not think I paint. Far, very far from it, I do not reach the fact, nor approach to it.
b. transitive. To flatter or deceive with specious words. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)]
flatter?c1225
flackera1250
slickc1250
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blandc1315
glozec1330
beflatter1340
curryc1394
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anointa1425
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losenge1480
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to hold in halsc1560
soothe1580
smooth1584
smooth1591
soothe1601
pepper1654
palp1657
smoothify1694
butter1700
asperse1702
palaver1713
blarney1834
sawder1834
soft-soap1835
to cock up1838
soft-solder1838
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soap1853
beslaver1861
beslobber1868
smarm1902
sugar1923
sweetmouth1948
smooth-talk1950
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > in words
painta1513
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. i. sig. a.iiv Many haue pleasure to speke of rybaudry Some of fyghtynge braulynge and actes marcyall Other to flater, and paynt the company.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 16 Nay, neuer paint me now, Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow. View more context for this quotation
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor
to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386
bibc1400
to kiss the cupa1420
drawa1500
refresh1644
mug1653
bub1654
jug1681
whiffle1693
dram1740
wet1783
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
stimulate1800
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taste1823
liquor1839
oil1841
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nip1858
smile1858
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gargle1889
shicker1906
stop1924
bevvy1934
1853 G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand I. ii. 70 Each hotel we passed..called forth the same observation, ‘I guess I shall go in and paint.’
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vi. 164 Pegasus doth thirst for Hippocrene, And fain would paint—imbibe the vulgar call—Or hot or cold, or long or short.
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 112/2 Paint, to (popular), to drink, alluding to a red nose caused by over-indulgence.
8.
a. transitive. To apply (a liquid) with a brush, esp. as an external medicament or in preparing food. Usually with on, over. Cf. paint n. 2b.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > paint with substance
pencil1822
paint1861
paint1862
1861 F. W. Headland Med. Handbk. 233 The vinegar of cantharides..is painted over the part with a camel hair brush.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 524 Liquor potassæ, diluted with an equal part of water, should be painted on.
1987 Which? Dec. 570/2 For larger pieces of meat, you can paint or sprinkle on browning agent.
1993 New Scientist 15 May 19/1 The prepolymer, which is painted onto the wound tissue as a liquid, forms a polymerised gel when activated by long-wavelength light.
b. transitive. To cover or coat with liquid in this way.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > paint with substance
pencil1822
paint1861
paint1862
1862 Sci. Amer. 8 Mar. 160/2 The writer..introduced the practice of cutting the seedling down to the bud..and painting the wound with a solution of gumshellac in alcohol.
1882 Cent. Mag. May 157/2 To secure insulation, the ends of each tie are painted with an insulating liquid that, when dry and hard, makes a good non-conductor.
1944 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 57 141 The residents of the ‘Egypt’ section of Illinois paint the soles of their feet with iodine to cure hay fever.
1961 in E. David Omelette & Glass of Wine (1986) 38 Spread each strip with a little mustard, paint it with beaten egg..then coat it with..breadcrumbs.
1991 N. de Lange tr. A. Oz To know Woman (1992) x. 50 He lopped off some redundant branches and painted the wounds with a black paste.
9.
a. transitive. To cause to be displayed or represented on the screen of a cathode ray tube by a beam of electrons; to cause (a screen) to display an image by such means.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > [verb (transitive)] > cause to show on screen
paint1946
1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 iiia. 147/2 When an echo or the background has been painted it rapidly fades away according to a law determined by the properties of the screen.
1977 Sci. Amer. Jan. 60/2 One kind of stimulus we find useful consists of a moving pattern of small, bright dots ‘painted’ on the screen of a cathode-ray tube with the aid of a computer.
1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 vi. 7/2 It takes about 1.2 million bits of information to paint a typical 16-color VGA screen.
b. intransitive. To register on the screen of a cathode ray tube (esp. in a radar system). Also with up and transitive.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > show on screen [verb (intransitive)]
paint1946
1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 iiia. 145/2 To obtain a satisfactory picture it is necessary to arrange that a fixed target ‘paints’ at approximately the same point on the screen for consecutive rotations of the aerial system.
1949 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 53 436/2 It was hoped to fly into some of the cloud forms, but the pilot decided that the risk of flying into any area which ‘painted up’ on the PPI tube was too great.
1988 Pilot Nov. 20/1 The aircraft then followed a meandering track to a point west of Teignmouth, where its transponder ceased to paint on radar.
2000 Oxf. Amer. May–June 59/2 We stay right below the peaks, just enough so we can still have our commo connections and not get painted by Serb radar.
10. transitive. Computing. To create (a graphic or screen display), esp. using a paint program (cf. paint program n. at paint n. Compounds 2); to use such a technique to alter, colour, or otherwise manipulate (an image).
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1978 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Jan. 18/5 The network plans to have an artist ‘paint’ his impressions of the game with a video graphics device dubbed the ‘electronic palette’.
1986 Personal Computer World Nov. 58/1 (advt.) Just ‘paint’ the screen the way you want and the TAS-Plus program generator writes the program for you.
1993 Daily Tel. 10 June 19/1 On screen you see Jeff Goldblum running in terror from a leaping tyrannosaurus rex, but the scene was filmed with the actor alone. The toothy beast was painted in from a high-resolution Silicon Graphics super-computer.
Phrases
P1. intransitive. to paint with a broad (also wide) brush: to describe or portray someone or something in very general terms, avoiding or neglecting the finer details; to make a general or sweeping statement.Cf. broad-brush adj. 1.
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1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxii. 147 (note) Plutarch, who commonly paints with a broad brush.., calls Nypsius's troops altogether barbarians.
1907 Spectator 9 Nov. 698/2 Lord Curzon in the extraordinarily interesting Romanes Lecture..paints with a broad brush, and that is precisely what a British audience just now requires.
1976 Forbes 15 Dec. 78/1 Readers are interested in ideas about individual stocks. I will paint with a broad brush because I wish to mention many issues.
1992 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 27 Dec. f8/5 McWilliams' sketchbook ends up demeaning the press..and those troops he means to honor, painting everyone with a wide brush of undesireable [sic] traits.
2013 K. E. Drexler Radical Abundance iii. 28 In saying this, I am painting with a broad brush.
P2. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to paint the town (red) (and variants): to enjoy oneself flamboyantly; go on a boisterous or exuberant spree.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
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ragea1400
roara1450
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tirl on the berry?1520
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domineer1592
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roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
1882 Semi-weekly Interior Jrnl. (Stanford, Kentucky) 10 Mar. 1/4 He gets on a high old drunk with a doubtful old man, and they paint the town red together.
1883 N.Y. Times 27 July 5/3 Mr. James Hennessy offered a resolution that the entire body proceed forthwith to Newark and get drunk... Then the Democrats charged upon the street cars, and being wafted into Newark proceeded, to use their own metaphor, to ‘paint the town red’.
1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 20 Nov. 2/4 Whenever there was any excitement or anybody got particularly loud, they always said somebody was ‘painting the town red’.
1889 R. Kipling Abaft Funnel (1909) 50 They..would..do their best towards painting that town [sc. Chicago] in purest vermilion.
1900 M. H. Hayes Among Horses Russia i. 36 I have found them..in no way inclined to paint town and country red on the slightest provocation.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 594 And there he was at the end of his tether after having often painted the town tolerably pink.
1971 J. Didion Play it as it Lays lix. 151 Next time I'm over we'll paint the town.
1994 Voice 18 Oct. 12 Singers, sport stars, song-writers and other famous faces..poured themselves into their glad rags and painted the town red.
P3. transitive. to paint (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner: to force (a person) into a situation from which it is not easy to escape; to oblige (a person) to follow a restricted (and usually undesirable) course of action.
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1951 E. Pendell Population on Loose ii. 34 In the years of scarcity that lie ahead, the people who have come to depend on other lands for food have painted themselves into a corner.
1965 Amer. Econ. Rev. 55 50 Britain's new Labour Government..is now committed to nationalize steel... Labour..has painted itself into a corner.
1972 Bankers Mag. Winter 92/1 He had never been popular in the popular sense of the word, and now he was being painted into a corner by the press and the ‘Democratic economists.’
2002 Denver Post (Nexis) 22 Sept. ee2 I had sort of painted myself into a corner. I had no college degree. I couldn't keep leading the life I'd been leading.
P4. transitive. to paint the Forth Bridge and variants [in allusion to the huge task of maintaining the painted surfaces of the railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, central Scotland] : used in similative phrases as the type of a never-ending or arduous task.
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1901 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 16 July 3/1 The Forth Bridge is constantly being repainted.]
1955 Times 2 Mar. 7/1 One of its main tasks is to keep the authoritative dictionary of the French language up to date, and this task, like painting the Forth bridge, is never finished.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Oct. ii. 1/6 Mr. Edgar compared his task to painting the Forth Bridge: every time a version was finished it needed re-doing from the start.
1995 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Mar. 2 He looked like a man beginning to paint the Forth Bridge on his own. ‘It is a bit of a lonely life, and it's very hard work.’
P5. intransitive and transitive. to paint by number(s) and variants: to paint a picture marked out in advance into sections which are numbered according to the colour to be used. Also in extended use: to do something in a mechanical or an unimaginative way. Cf. by numbers at number n. Phrases 9b; paint-by-numbers adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > paint according to medium or technique [verb (intransitive)] > other techniques
enamel1601
velvet1612
to paint by number(s)1953
1953 N.Y. Times 14 June 82 (advt.) Paint by number with Craftint's new ‘Big 3’ set... Set of three 12x16 mounted canvases ready to frame. Includes 3 numbered panels.
1971 ‘P. Kavanagh’ Triumph of Evil (1972) vi. 50 He even bought this terrible oil painting... It looked as though it had been painted by numbers.
1980 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 July 63 Panov tells the story so literally that ‘The Idiot’ becomes the balletic equivalent of painting by the numbers, with characters bordering on caricature.
1994 Denver Post 8 Feb. b7/1 Artistic expression in America is never ‘paint by the numbers’.
Phrasal verbs
With adverbs in specialized senses.† to paint forth to paint out to paint over
Obsolete.
transitive. = to paint out at Phrasal verbs.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]
depaint?c1225
paintc1275
figurec1380
resemblea1393
portraya1398
represent?a1425
impicture1523
portrait1548
shadow1553
to paint forth1558
storize1590
personate1591
limn1593
propound1594
model1604
table1607
semble1610
rendera1616
to paint out1633
person1644
present1649
to figure out1657
historize1668
to fancy out1669
to take off1680
figurate1698
refer1700
display1726
depicture1739
depict1817
actualize1848
1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 10 Nature I say, doth paynt them furthe to be weake, fraile..and foolishe.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. 28 Whose simple answere, wanting colours faire To paint it forth, him to displeasance moou'd.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xix. 303 My information, well shall paint you forth.
1649 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 148 Itt is of very great concernment towards the painting forth of the Presbitery.
1756 J. Brown Athelstan ii. i. 18 Paint forth the Terrors Of the dread Sacrifice.
1774 J. Murray New Serm. to Asses 29 The husband..as soon as he was perceived not to be, in the mercantile stile, a good man, was painted forth as a monster of villainy.
1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe in Waverley Novels XVI. 334 (note) To look more diligently upon their behaviours, and to paint them forth unto the world, that they themselves may be ashamed of their own beastliness.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iii. 100 Nothing, Falsehood..the great Night or shade, on which, as a back-ground, the living universe paints itself forth.
transitive.† 3. To paint a copy of. Obsolete. rare.
1. To express or display by painting. Also figurative: = sense 4a. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)]
meteOE
depaint?c1225
paintc1275
stain1519
to paint out1553
depeinct1579
limn1593
impaint1598
pencil1610
stroke1624
depencil1631
brush1897
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 95 Not onely are matters set out by description, but men are painted out in their colours.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 461 b Emongest many pictures of our Lady..the very same which Luke did painte out for his owne use, and reserved with great reverence.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xv. 27 Their miserable ends painted out in playes and pageants, to shew the mutabilitie of fortune.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 100 Clau. Disloyall? Bast. The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse. View more context for this quotation
1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. ii. 65 The golden age..is painted out to us, as the most charming and most peaceable condition, that can..be imagin'd.
1766 I. Bickerstaff Plain Dealer ii. iii. 23 Madam, give me leave to paint her out to you a little, because I am intimately acquainted with the family.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlii. 128 Not an indefinite adversity, but a ruin in detail, which his thoughts painted out with the sharpest, ugliest intensity.
1886 J. S. Blackie Messis Vitae 16 If you should fear I'm painting out a story, Ask, and you will hear The truth at Tobermory.
2. = sense 4b.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]
depaint?c1225
paintc1275
figurec1380
resemblea1393
portraya1398
represent?a1425
impicture1523
portrait1548
shadow1553
to paint forth1558
storize1590
personate1591
limn1593
propound1594
model1604
table1607
semble1610
rendera1616
to paint out1633
person1644
present1649
to figure out1657
historize1668
to fancy out1669
to take off1680
figurate1698
refer1700
display1726
depicture1739
depict1817
actualize1848
1633 Abp. Williams in Laud's Wks. (1857) VI. 336 [They] have with their deceitful colours..painted me out as ugly unto your grace as they have done your grace formidable unto me.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 177 That notable Amazon..is painted out as a very Masculine Lady.
a1776 D. Hume Ess., Lit., Moral, & Polit. (1870) xl. iii. 419 The state of nature..is painted out as a state of mutual war and violence.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vi. 138 Some good-natured friend in the dark has painted you out for a reprobate.
1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Sports section) 10 d I've been painted out to be an ogre.
1998 Hindu (Nexis) 13 May The Coca Cola trination tournament..was painted out to be the tournament that nobody but the Board wanted.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy > copy in colours
to paint out1670
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 52 Tho. Earle of Arundel got leaue to haue it painted out.
4. To obliterate or efface by covering with paint.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid
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to paint out1834
to black out1850
ink out1881
to white out1974
Tippex1983
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. v. 82 Painting out signs, and carrying off platforms.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol i. 3 Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.
1927 R. Fry Let. 27 Aug. (1972) II. 607 How often I've had to paint out the best piece of a picture.
1966 D. Francis Flying Finish xiv. 174 Giuseppe..was..painting out the airline's name on the fuselage.
1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) iv. 222 Later paintings showed Periyar, after independence, painting out the Hindu names of railway stations in the South.
5. Nautical. To apply paint to all appropriate parts of (a ship, deck, etc.). Cf. sense 2a.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > paint [verb (transitive)]
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depaintc1320
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superficialize1593
repaint1600
overpaint1611
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colour-wash1850
distemper1870
respray1880
to paint out1902
aerosol1979
1902 B. Lubbock Round Horn viii. 302 The great day for cleaning and painting out the half-deck has come... The steward also painted out his berth to-day.
1924 ‘P. Blundell’ Confessions of Seaman ii. 28 When was it painted out last, I should like to know?
1963 S. Hayden Wanderer (1964) i. 8 You've painted her out—you've even changed her name?
transitive.† 1. To cover with a layer of gold; to gild. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > gild
overgildOE
gildOE
gilt?a1400
to paint overa1400
overgilt?a1425
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begild1600
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 1267 (MED) Peynted as pur gold alle þe place was ouer.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 371 He..led hom..Into a chamber..þat proudly was painted with pure gold ouer.
2. To cover with paint; to cover with another colour or layer of paint. Also figurative.
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1590 Sir P. Sidney Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia iii. viii. f. 271v Nor yet seeme ougly to him, whose truely-affected minde, did still paint it ouer with the beautie of Philoclea.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 39 The Galley..her hulke painted over with sparkling vermilion.
1668 R. Howard Great Favourite ii. ii. 23 Nature Painted thee over with a fair resemblance Of her blest Image.
1709 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 7 With that he arose full of Malice and Spight, To see his black Cloaths painted over with white.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 417 The whole is painted over with a preparation of whiting and size to form the ground.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. vi. 71 His weary face now began to be painted over with a rich orange glow.
1965 A. Lurie Nowhere City ix. 85 The shop windows had been painted over in irregular rectangles of red, blue, green and white.
1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) ii. 60/4 If you want to paint over old bitumen paint, use an aluminium primer first.
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† paintv.2
Nautical. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To make fast (an anchor) on a ship with a painter.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > loose (ship) from anchor > make fast on ship with painter
paint1485
1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 68 Hokes to paynte thankers with.
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