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A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

nction. [Obs. or Archaic] Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.

Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain.

n to ascertain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. Darwin.

y, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

ation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling. When pain and anguish wring the brow. Sir W. Scott.

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. [Obs.] I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued. Temple.

ds to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31.