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To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.

rt; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.

the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- School of design, one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.

To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.] Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.

A kind of painting. See Distemper.

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence. Shak.

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Deut. xix. 18.

To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. [Obs.]

A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produce…

A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall.

rrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are reli…

o deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

empered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

st aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. Whose face was distorted with pain. Thackeray.

Shak. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. Mrs. Browning.

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.