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of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fo…

Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.

s; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary. Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. London Encyc.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet.

The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

er; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.

Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. -- n.

A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.

n of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath. At the last gasp, at the point of death. Addison.

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] "Nicely gauded cheeks." Shak.

uit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, esp. as prepared for use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.