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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.

et, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; - - called also a pepito. -- Gold paint. See Gold shell. -- Gold or Golden, pheasant. (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant. -- Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. -- Gold of pleasure. Etym: [Name perhaps translated from Sp. o…

ction against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.

To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.

Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.

Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

ffect; to form an assemblage of. The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. Prior. Grouped columns (Arch.), three or moro columns placed upon the same pedestal.

The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

rds he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.

tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

f-time system. -- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.…

An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.