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Painted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who depaints. [Obs.]

Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

To paint; to adorn with colors. [R.] "To impaint his cause." Shak.

To paint ill, or wrongly.

To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.

A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter, etc.

To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.

To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

sult of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

led also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.

One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

e military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

m the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.…

greement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.