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The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.

The art of printing colored pictures on canvas from oil paintings on stone.

to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography.

A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

rt is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. [Written also modelling.] Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other r…

A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.

na). -- Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting; saxonite. -- Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant (Oxyria digyna with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. Gray.…

minute and very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like, esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.

lural and in a bad sense. There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities. Dryden.

kness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach. Locke. Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection. Dryden.

Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. (b) Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.

To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

The art of painting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dryden.

one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting. Roget.

Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).

To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.

A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this).