1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.
2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.
3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form.
When folly romantic, we must paint it.
4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe.
Disloyal!
--The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
5. To color; to diversify with colors.
6. To lay on artificial color for ornament.
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Ki 9.
PAINT, v.i. To lay colors on the face. It is said the ladies in France paint.
1. To practice painting. The artist paints well.
PAINT, n. A coloring substance; a substance used in painting; either simple or compound; as a white paint, or red paint.
1. Color laid on canvas or other material; color representing any thing.
2. Color laid on the face; rouge.
