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▪ I. paint, n.|peɪnt|
[f. paint v.]
1. The act or fact of painting or colouring.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. ii, Her cheekes not yet slurd over with the paint Of borrowed crimsone. Mod. Give it a paint, and it will look all right.
2. That with which anything is painted.
a. A substance consisting of a solid colouring matter dissolved in a liquid vehicle, as water or oil, used to impart a colour by being spread over a surface; also applied to the solid colouring matter alone, or to a cake of it, as in a box of paints; a pigment.
1712Addison Spect. No. 416 ⁋2 Expresses were sent to the Emperor of Mexico in Paint. 1735Berkeley Querist §118 A modern fashionable house,..daubed over with oil and paint. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 829 When two coats of this paint have been laid on, it may be polished. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 250 Paint is commonly ground by means of a stone muller. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 90 The timber had once been painted, but the paint had fallen off.
b. Colouring matter laid on the face or body for adornment; rouge, etc.
c1660Dryden To Sir R. Howard 76 His colours laid so thick on every place, As only showed the paint, but hid the face. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Lady Rich 10 Oct., I have seen..beauties..monstrously unnatural in their paint! 1817Byron Beppo lxvi, One has false curls, another too much paint. 1865Parkman Huguenots iii. (1875) 31 [The Indians] were in full paint in honor of the occasion.
c. Med. An external medicament which is put on like paint with a brush.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 582 Both tar and pyrogallol work better as paints and varnishes than the chrysarobin. Ibid. VIII. 727 Trichloracetic acid may be substituted [for tincture of iron] as a paint. Mod. Iodine paint is a good application in some cases.
d. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Paint,..stuff mixed with caoutchouc..intended to harden it, [e.g.] Sulphate of zinc, whiting, plaster-of-paris, lampblack, pitch.
e. Phr. as smart (pretty, etc.) as paint: superlatively smart, pretty, etc.
1850F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xli. 340 Why, Oaklands, man, you are looking as fresh as paint; getting sound again, wind and limb, eh? 1883R. L. Stevenson Treas. Isl. viii. 65 You're a lad, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when you first came in. 1905Tatler 22 Feb. 306/3 Half the English [Rugby] side were played out twenty minutes before the end while the Irish⁓men were still as fresh as paint. 1918A. Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell 176 He stared..across at the grouped rustic buildings, all as pretty as paint. 1930H. A. Bryden Enchantments of Field 187 After all, your hounds may be as handsome as paint, but if they fail you in nose, cry and hunting-power they are worse than useless. 1963N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) iii. 58 Miss Emily arrived at noon on Monday. She had stayed overnight in Dorset and was as fresh as paint. 1975J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo ii. 40 Not always wholly agreeable, perhaps, but as clever as paint.
3. fig. Colour, colouring; adornment, esp. such as is put on or assumed merely for appearance; outward show, fair pretence.
1647Cowley Mistress, Written in Juice of Lemon v, A sudden paint adorns the trees. 1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 43 Even then shall thy paint appear and be dis⁓covered. 1681W. Penn in Hist. Soc. Pennsylv. (1826) I. ii. 204, I have forborne paint and allurement, and writt truth. 1728Young Love Fame v. 522 Virtue's the paint that can make wrinkles shine.
†4. A painting, a picture. Obs. rare.
c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 299 On the Left side is a summer house wth paints of the seasons of y⊇ yeare.
5. Indian paint: a name for two N. American plants, whose roots yield colouring matters formerly used by the Indians; yellow Indian paint, yellow puccoon, or yellowroot (Hydrastis canadensis), and red Indian paint, red puccoon, or bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis).
1893in Syd. Soc. Lex.
6. = pinto n. Also as adj. (Chiefly U.S.)
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 243 In some of the Southern States, a horse or other animal which is spotted is called a paint. 1869Overland Monthly III. 126 A black-and-white-paint horse, fifteen hands high. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny vi. 96 Sam Kildrake's old paint hoss that killed hisself over-drinkin' on a hot day. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 18 June 15/4 The Appaloosa somewhat resembles the paints, pintos and calicos, so popular with the plains Indians. 1955W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West viii. 226 An animal violently splotched with different colors was called a paint. 1975J. Hansen Trouble Maker i. 2 She led out a little paint mare. Ibid. xii. 125 The sorrel followed the paint. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 2 July 11-C/6 (Advt.), 8 yr old paint gelding. Child broke. Possible show horse.
7. attrib. and Comb., as paint-cistern, paint-cloth, paint-drum, paint-job, paint-mark, paint-oil, paint-rag, paint-shop, paint-stoving, paint-water, paint-work; paint-grinder, paint-mixer, paint-remover, paint-stripper, paint-thinner; paint-beplastered, paint-dappled, paint-daubed, paint-speckled paint-removing, paint-stained, paint-worn adjs.; paint box, a box of solid paints or pigments, usually water-colours; paint-bridge (Theatr.), a platform, capable of being raised or lowered, on which a scene-painter stands; paint-brush, (a) a brush for painting with; (b) = Indian paint-brush (Indian A. 4 b); paint-burner, an apparatus for burning or softening paint by a flame directed upon it, so that it can be removed (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); paint card, a card showing a graduated range of paint colours; also fig.; paint frame (Theatr.), a movable iron framework for moving scenes from the stage to the paint-bridge; paint-mill, a machine for grinding paints or pigments; paint-pot, a pot in which oil-colour is contained, while being laid on; paint-roller, a roller covered in an absorbent material which holds paint to be applied to a surface; also attrib.; paint-room, (a) a room where paints are stored; (b) a room in a theatre where the scene-painter works; paint-root, the Carolina redroot (Lachnanthes tinctoria); paint spray, a device for spraying paint on to a surface; hence paint-spray vb. trans., paint-sprayed ppl. adj.; paint-stone, a stone used as a source of paint; paint-strake, Naut. ‘the uppermost strake of plank immediately below the plank-sheer’ (Cent. Dict.).
a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. IV. 272 Thy *paint-beplaster'd forehead, broad and bare.
1725New-England Courant 8–15 Feb. 1/2, I would oblige every Sign-Painter to serve seven Years at College, before he presum'd to handle Pencil or *Paint-Box. 1820Shelley Posthumous Poems (1824) 62 Near that a dusty paint box, some old hooks. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Paint-box, a child's box containing cakes of water⁓colours. 1879Black Macleod of D. xl, A poor creature—a woman-man—a thing of affectation, with his paint-box, and his velvet coat, and his furniture.
1827J. Woodman Patent Specif. No. 5476. 2 My *paint brush is of bristles. 1842J. Cole Patent Specif. No. 9228. 4 The paint brush, after it is formed is soaked. 1882Young Ev. Man his own Mech. §1576 The hair of this brush is longer than that of the ordinary paint brush. 1898Atlantic Monthly LXXXII. 497/2 The exquisite vernal iris and the scarlet painted cup, otherwise known as the Indian's paint-brush and prairie fire, splendid for color. 1915Armstrong & Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 472 *Paint Brush. Castilleja miniata. Red. Summer. Northwest. This is a very handsome kind, from one to four feet tall. 1968Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 9 Apr. (1970) 656 Great splashes of wildflowers began to appear along the road and in the pastures..pale pink buttercups, wild verbena, coral paint brush, Indian blanket.
1931D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) xiii. 266 A nervous man..with a blood pressure away up in the *paint cards must live quietly. 1961Paint card [see grey scale s.v. grey a. 8].
1815Burney Falconer's Marine Dict., *Paint-Cisterns, in ships of war, are cisterns made of wood, and lined with lead, to contain the different kinds of paint.
1886All the Year Round 28 Aug. 79 Snuffboxes, too, were found among the perfumes, *paintcloths, and washes.
1904Windsor Mag. Jan. 234/1 He handed me a *paint-dappled copper stencil-plate, two feet square.
1945W. de la Mare Burning-Glass 54 A *paint-daubed woman bound for lonely bed..Stood watching him.
1920Blackw. Mag. Apr. 499 The *paint-drums..had been jolted bodily from their lashings.
1901C. 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. 1954Archit. Rev. CXVI. 114 A similar movement may still be seen driving the paint-frame at the Leicester Theatre Royal. 1961New Statesman 20 Jan. 81/1 Backstage, Mr Moro plans..a full-scale paint frame.
1970New Yorker 14 Nov. 59/1 The danger is always that the result will be a *paint job, very superficial. 1971New Scientist 22 Apr. 224/3 An imaginative and informed paintjob can achieve things which no camera or CRT could ever do. 1978G. Vidal Kalki xi. 251 The White House (which needs a paint job).
1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 118/2 The tramper may leave the highway with impunity.., following the little signs and *paint-marks on the trees.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 454 Curriers' shavings, which are used for cleaning *paint-mills.
1885Howells Silas Lapham (1891) I. 17 I've got a whole *paint-mine out on the farm.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Paint Mixer, a can with shaft and paddles, resembling an upright churn. Used to mix paint with the necessary oil, turpentine, [etc.].
1727in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1923) XVIII. 227 Glass, *Paint oile, Druggs and Stationary ware.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast viii. 18 We sat, with our brushes and *paint-pots by us.
1938N. Marsh Artists in Crime i. 4 The painter..found..a handkerchief that had been used as a *paint-rag. 1975N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? 73 The woman..was wiping dust off her hands with a paint-rag.
1885List of Subscribers, Classified (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 133 Manufacturers..*Paint Remover. 1890Cent. Dict., Paint-remover, a caustic alkaline paste used to take off old paint in order to prepare the surface for repainting. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 306/1 The enamel can then be softened..by immersing them in a paint remover for perhaps a quarter of an hour. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xx. 131 She offered me one of those menthol cigarettes that taste like paint remover. 1973F. Taubes Painter's Dict. 175 Paint remover is sold under various trade names, and each brand is of similar formulation. The fluid is used to remove old paint layers and oil-varnish films.
1951N. & S. Mager Amer. Househ. Encycl. 623 *Paint rollers. 1954Good Housek. Home Encycl. 208/1 Paint Rollers: Covered in lamb's wool on special felt..these rollers are simple to use. 1958Times 7 July 6/5 The latest paint roller improvement is a foolproof model which holds and automatically feeds the right amount of paint on to the surface. 1959Listener 23 Apr. 739/1, I have been trying out the self-feeding paint rollers that have recently come on the market. 1971Handyman Which? Nov. 25/2 There are lots of paint rollers and their prices vary..from 28p to about {pstlg}2.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 62 The paint and paint oil is stowed in the *paint-room.
1866Darwin Orig. Spec. i. (ed. 4) 12 The pigs ate the *paint-root (Lachnanthes), which coloured their bones pink.
1866Oregon State Jrnl. 23 June 3/4 Enquire of W. W. Winter, at *paint shop under picture gallery. 1899Sat. Even. Post 10 June 795 Eight hundred tons of white lead are ground in the paint shop every twelve months. 1949J. H. Ousbey Cellulose Spraying xv. 61 The bodies, on which the doors have already been hung, come to the paintshop by overhead conveyor and are in bare metal. 1973Times 18 May 26/5 By eliminating the solvents and attendant fumes, Fiat said the danger to the lungs of paintshop employees is sharply reduced.
1922Joyce Ulysses 442 Their *paint-speckled hats wag.
1962Punch 11 July 57/1 Twenty thousand men downing *paint-sprays at Dagenham. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iii. 99 Almost all products of this kind..are glazed by spraying, in much the same way as car bodies are paint-sprayed. 1971Money Which? Mar. 69/1 Small tools, such as hand drills, paint sprays, and so on, are strictly speaking capital. 1973Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/6 Dundee's modern shopping precinct has now been further decorated with paint-sprayed gang slogans.
1797A. Barnard Let. 29 Nov. in S. Afr. a Century Ago (1901) 121 The ‘*paint stone’ is found in this neighbourhood [sc. Paarl] in quantities—namely, an impalpable powder which, mixed with oil, serves the country people with colour to paint their waggons, houses, etc. 189613th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1891–92 115 The articles known as paint-stones scarcely come under the head of implements... Most of them were used merely to furnish paint.
1951Engineering 26 Jan. 100/2 An infra-red *paint-stoving plant..is being used for stoving No. 20 gauge aluminium panels for omnibus bodies. 1962W. D. Hislop in H. W. Chatfield Sci. Surface Coatings xviii. 531 All paint stoving ovens can be a hazard as the solvent vapour/air mixture is a potential fire risk.
1971Morning 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. 1973J. Rossiter Manipulators iv. 37 Paint-stripper fluid poured lavishly over the enamel..had boiled large blisters.
1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring/Summer 1397/6 *Paint Thinner. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 313/1 The following will be required:..paint, paint thinners and an artist's small brush. 1977F. Parrish Fire in Barley ix. 96 Two five-gallon drums... One was called paint-thinner, one creosote.
1866S. B. James Duty & Doctrine (1871) 83 Snow-white is far more forcible than mere *paint-white, or ceiling-white.
1888M. B. Huish in Art Jrnl. LI. 177/1 No expensive *paintwork, in feeble imitation of the wood it covers. 1933L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall i. 3 The mailboat..glided gracefully in, her white paintwork stained a rich orange. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising v. 40 Handy Andy shifts grime from paintwork like this. 1973Handyman Which? Aug. 104/1 Curtains..rubbing against a wall could, over a period of time, make marks on the paintwork.
1859Sala Gas-light & D. vii. 85 That comfortable *paint-worn manginess about the handle.
▪ II. paint, v.1|peɪnt|
Forms: 3–6 peint(e, peynt(e, 4–7 paynt(e, (5–6 pant(t, poynt, 5–6, 9 dial. pent(e, 6 painct, paynct, peignt, Sc. pynt, 6–7 peinct), 4– paint, (6 painte). pa. pple. 3 i-, y-peint, 3–4 y-, i-peynt, 4 peynt, paynt, paint; 4–5 y-, i-paynted; peinted, peynted, -id, 5–6 paynted, -yd, -yt, 4– painted.
[ME. ad. OF. peind-re (3rd sing. pres. peint, pa. pple. peint) = Pr. pegner, It. pignere, pingere:—L. pingĕre (3rd sing. pingit, pa. pple. pinct-us) to paint. The early ME. pa. pple. peint, ypeint, was a direct adoption of F. peint, and may have been the earliest part of the vb. adopted; cf. attaint. Otherwise the natural form of the word in Eng. would be pain as in complain, distrain, etc.
But the earliest evidence for the vb. yet found is peintunge, painting vbl. n., in Ancren R. a 1225.]
I.
1. a. trans. To make (a picture or representation) on a surface in colours; to represent (an object) to the eye on a surface by means of lines and colour; to depict, portray, delineate, by using colours.
to paint (an object) black, white, red, etc.: to depict or portray as of that colour.
c1290Beket 2127 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 167 For ȝwane men peyntiez an Anletnesse [Harl. MS. an halewe]: ȝe ne seoth it nouȝt bi-leued Þat þere nis depeint [v.r. ypeint] a Roundel: al-a-boute þe heued. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3613 Þeron ypeint was..Þe ymage of vre leuedy. 13..Coer de L. 5728 In his blasoun, verrayment, Was y-paynted a serpent. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xi. (Symon & Judas) 69 He send til hyme þane a paynteore, þat rycht sle wes in portratore, to paynt his fygur propirly. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 13 Gregorius..seiþ, ‘I haue peynt a wel faire man, and am my self a foule peyntour’. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 24 Þai wald paynt þe aungell black and þe fende qwhite. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 41 This story is payntit in mony placis. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 3 He shewyd the pepyll a pictur poyntyd on a clothe, of the passion of our lorde. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxi. 257 A little child [who]..appeared in the same fashion as we are accustomed to paint Angells. 1805Southey Pious Painter i. i, But chiefly his praise And delight was in painting the Devil. 1875Hamerton Round my House ii. (1876) 31 Picturesque old houses,..which an artist would be glad to paint. Mod. His portrait is to be painted for the Reform Club.
b. To adorn (a wall, tapestry, window, etc.) with a painting or paintings. (Mostly in pass.)
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1112 Al peynted [v.r. peinted] was the wal in lengthe & brede..Ffirst on the wal was peynted a forest. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 313 His schippe þat was i-peynt wiþ a dragoun. 1511Sir R. Guylforde Pilgr. (Camden) 37 All the body of the churche..payntid with storyes from the begynnynge of the worlde. 1784Cook 3rd Voy. II. iii. 267 A kind of additional prow painted with the figure of some animal. 1813M. Edgeworth Patron. (1833) I. vi. 105 To paint a new window for the gallery.
†c. Said of writing (as a kind of painting). Obs.
1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. 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. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 142 These are not words that one reades, and are painted upon paper, they are felt.
d. transf. Said of the effect of coloured light.
1831Brewster 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. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1873) II. v. 150 Like the Iris painted upon the cloud.
e. intr. or absol. To practise the art of painting; to make pictures.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1229 Wel koude he peynten lifly that it wroghte. 1530Palsgr. 651/2 He can paynte and portrer as wel as any man in al this countray. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xxxiv. 50 To grind Gold to Write and Paint. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing viii. 417 To paint also implies to draw.
f. intr. (for neuter-passive). To form a (good, bad) subject for painting.
1860Reade Cloister & H. xliii. (1896) 123 War was always detrimental... But in old times..it painted well, sang divinely, furnished Iliads.
2. fig.
a. To depict or display vividly as by painting.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iii. (1577) Q iv, [He] meeteth her in the teeth, with such heauy passion paincted in his eyes. 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xiv. §1 If even each atom of your pain could be painted on my mind. 1814Cary Dante, Par. iv. 11 Desire Was painted in my looks. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 85 The bad have pleasures painted in their fancy as well as the good.
b. To depict or describe in words; to set forth as in a picture; to present vividly to the mind's eye, call up a picture of.
1406Hoccleve Misrule 247 Thogh fauel peynte hir tale in prose or ryme. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 119 b, Oh unsatiable woulves: howe ryghte..have the Prophetes and Apostles..paynted and set you forth in your colours. 16051st Pt. Ieronimo (1901) iii. iii, Reueng, giue my toong freedom to paint her part. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. i. 13 What words can paint the guilt of such a conduct? 1783Crabbe Village i. 53, I paint the Cot As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not. 1865Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 308, I try to paint, in poor and feeble words, a few of the features and objects.
3. a. To colour with a wash or coating of paint; to cover the surface of (a wall, door, etc.) with paint; to colour, stain; hence, to adorn with colours.
a1250Owl & Night. 76 Þine eȝen beoþ colblake and brode Riht swo hi weren ipeint mid wode. a1300Cursor M. 9912 Þis castell..es painted..O thre colurs o sundri heu. Ibid. 9924 Þe thrid [colur]..þat þe kirnels ar paint [v.rr. paynt, peynt] wit-all. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxx. 137 Many faire halles and chaumbres, paynted with gold and azure. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 30 Their ancient maner and custome of peincting their bodies. 1617Moryson Itin. (1903) 83 Commonly paynting the mayne and taile..of their horses with light coulers, as Carnation and the like. 1704J. Pitts Acc. Mahometans viii. (1738) 163 The Women..paint their Hands and Feet with a certain Plant call'd Hennah. 1875Hamerton Round my House ii. (1876) 35 Wainscoted with old oak that had been painted grey. Mod. Are you going to paint or varnish the wood-work?
b. transf. To colour by any means.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 6 Pieres þe plowman was paynted al blody, And come in with a crosse. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 875 Tisbe, How with hise blod hire selue gan sche pente. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxi. x, Ages snow my head hath painted. a1698South Serm. III. xi. 420 If God so cloaths the Fields, so paints the Flowers. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIII. 70 His eyes were much swollen and painted. 1851Trench Poems 155 Where the sunbeam..wound..to paint With interspace of light and colour faint That tesselated floor. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lviii, Seeing the young faces ‘painted with fear’.
c. fig. To adorn or variegate with or as with colours; to deck, beautify, decorate, ornament.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 176 He can purtreye wel þe pater-noster and peynte it with aues. 14..Sir Beues 1132 (MS. M.) All the wyndowes and all the wallis With cristall was peynted. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxvi. (1845) 114 A ryall playne, With Flora painted in many a sundry vayne. 1533Gau Richt Vay 16 Thay that payntis thair body with precious clais. 1667Milton P.L. v. 187 Till the Sun paint your fleecie skirts with Gold. 1750Shenstone Rural Elegance 60 Or humble harebell paints the plain. 1866B. Taylor Pine Forest Monterey, Spring, that paints These savage shores.
4. a. To put colour on (the face in order to beautify it artificially); to rouge; also refl.
1382Wyclif 2 Kings ix. 30 Forsothe Iezabel..peyntyde hyre eeȝen with strumpettis oynment, and sche anournede hyre heued. c1400Destr. Troy 434 Wemen haue wille in þere wilde youthe to fret hom with fyn perle, & þaire face paint. 1599Chapman Hum. Day's Mirth Plays 1873 I. 77 She is very faire, I thinke that she be painted. 1678Hexham Du. Dict., To Paint ones face as Gentle-women do, Blancketten. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock v. 27 Since painted or not painted, all shall fade, And she who scorns a man, must die a maid. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. vii, ‘She's not so—so red as she's painted’, says Miss Beatrix.
b. intr. for refl.
13..Cursor M. 28014 (Cott.) Yee leuedis..studis hu your hare to heu, hu to dub and hu to paynt. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 945 To paynt as women do, farder. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 213 Let her paint an inch thicke, to this fauour she must come. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. i, She scorned to patch and paint. 1862W. Collins No Name iv. iii. II. 187 ‘Shall I paint?’ she asked herself..‘the rouge is still left in my box’.
†c. intr. (fig.) To change colour; to blush. to paint white, etc.: to turn pale. Obs.
c1613Middleton No Wit like Woman's ii. i, Look to the widow, she paints white.—Some aqua cœlestis for my lady! 1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass ii. vi, You make me paint Sr. Wit. The' are fair colours, Lady, and naturall! 1623Middleton More Dissemblers Besides Women i. i, I'll kiss thee into colour: Canst thou paint pale so quickly?
5. fig. (trans.) To give a false colouring or complexion to; to colour highly, esp. with a view to deception. Now rare or Obs.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋948 Thow shalt nat eek peynte thy confession by faire subtile wordes to couere the moore thy synne. a1400–50Alexander 4427 He can practise & paynt & polisch his wordis. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 2 b, Rhetorike at large paintes well the cause, And make that seeme right gaie. 1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess., So are most of the actions of the last ages; but painted with counterfeite colours. 1778Sir J. Reynolds Disc. viii. (1876) 443 The writers..where taste has begun to decline, paint and adorn every object they touch.
†6.
a. intr. To talk speciously; to feign; to fawn;
b. trans. To flatter or deceive with specious words.
c1430How Wise Man Tauȝt Sonne 105 in Babees Bk. 51 Y wole neiþir glose ne peynt, But y waarne þee on þe oþir side. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 52 Other to flater, and paynt the company. 1530Palsgr. 655/2, I peynt, I glose or speke fayre, je adule. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. i. 16 Nay, neuer paint me now, Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 488 You leye, you paint, you faine.
7. trans. To apply with a brush, as an external medicament; to treat (any part) in this way: see paint n. 2 c.
1861Headland Med. Handbk. 233 The vinegar of cantharides..is painted over the part with a camel hair brush. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 524 Liquor potassæ, diluted with an equal part of water, should be painted on. Mod. The part affected should be painted with iodine.
8. intr. (slang.) To drink.
1853G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand ii. I. 70 Each hotel we passed..called forth the same observation, ‘I guess I shall go in and paint’. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago xxiv, Pegasus doth thirst for Hippocrene, And fain would paint—imbibe the vulgar call—Or hot or cold, or long or short.
9. a. trans. To cause to be displayed or represented on the screen of a cathode-ray tube.
1946Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. XCIII. 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. 1949Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LIII. 436/1 It will be seen that the area of towering cumulo-nimbus clouds..are clearly painted on the PPI picture. 1960J. D. Haigh Radiolocation Techniques xii. 192 A photographic display of this kind has the advantage that the whole display is of uniform brightness as compared with a normal p.p.i. in which, at any one moment, only that portion of the picture actually being painted by the rotating time-base is at maximum brightness. 1960Proc. Inst. Electr. Engin. CVII. b. Suppl. 19. 54/2 The display console has a double-deflection system consisting of the main deflection circuits..which position a spot on the tube face, and a second deflection coil..which paints a small raster about this position. 1977Sci. 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.
b. intr. To show up on the screen of a cathode-ray tube. Also with up.
1946Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. XCIII. 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. 1949Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LIII. 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.
II.
10. Phrases. to paint (any one) black: to represent as evil or wicked; so not so black as he is painted. to paint the town red (slang, orig. U.S.): to cause an excitement or commotion, to go on a boisterous or riotous spree. to paint by number(s: to paint in a picture supplied marked out into sections which are numbered according to the colour to be used; hence paint-by-number(s, painting-by-number attrib. phrs.
1596, etc. [see devil n. 22 c]. a1686South Serm. II. ix. 356 Do but paint an Angel black, and that is enough to make him pass for a Devil. 1894Sir E. Sullivan Woman 112 These husbands are..not always so black as they are painted. 1884Boston (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’. 1897Chicago Advance 15 July 74/3 The boys painted the town [New York City] red with firecrackers [on Independence Day]. 1900M. H. Hayes Among Horses in Russia i. 36, I have found them..in no way inclined to paint town and country red on the slightest provocation. 1970Women's Household July 6/3, I..paint by number and plan to try painting soon. 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. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 14-B/6 But paint-by-number artists have nothing on 11 men at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. Led by Merle Brunsvold, the men put together an electronic pipe organ kit. 1976Sunday Post (Glasgow) 26 Dec. 9/2 Our other products, like playing cards, jigsaws, painting-by-number kits, &c. 1977J. Hodgins Invention of World iii. 42 She..spent the afternoon doing a paint-by-numbers picture, in the living room.
III. With advs.
†11. paint forth = paint out 12 a.
1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 12 Nature I say, doth paynt them furthe to be weake, fraile..and foolishe. 1615Chapman Odyss. xix. 684 My information well shall paint you forth. 1649in Nicholas Papers (Camden) 148 Itt is of very great concernment towards the painting forth of the Presbitery.
12. paint out.
a. † To express or display by painting; to execute in colours (obs.); fig. to depict as in a painting or vivid description.
1556in Robinson's transl. More's Utop. (Arb.) 164 Drawen and painted oute with master Mores pensille. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 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. 1633Abp. 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. 1728Morgan Algiers I. vi. 177 That notable Amazon..is painted out as a very Masculine Lady. 1809Malkin Gil Blas iv. vi. ⁋12 Some good-natured friend in the dark has painted you out for a reprobate.
†b. To copy in colours. Obs.
1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 33 Tho. Earl of Arundel got leave to have it painted out. Ibid. 52.
c. To blot out or efface by covering with paint.
1862Wilkie Collins No Name iv. vii, I am going to give the lie direct to that she-devil Lecount, by painting out your moles. 1901Daily Chron. 11 July 9/7 The Star..has carried those of the Starfish, with the last four letters painted out, but so faintly that the painted-out letters could be read.
d. Naut. = sense 3.
1902B. Lubbock Round the 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? 1963S. Hayden Wanderer (1964) i. 8 You've painted her out—you've even changed her name?
▪ III. † paint, v.2 Obs. Naut.
[app. back-formation from painter2.]
trans. To make fast (an anchor) on a ship with a ‘painter’.
1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 68 Hokes to paynte thankers with.
▪ IV. † paint, ppl. a. Obs.
In ME. peint, peynt.
[a. F. peint: see paint v.1]
Painted.
[1340Ayenb. 26 Berieles ypeynt and y-gelt.] c1394P. Pl. Crede 193 Y-paued wiþ peynt til. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 196 No proude peniles, with his peynte sleve. |