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ture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone. Tone color. (Mus.) see the Note under def. 4, above. -- Tone syllable, an accented syllable. M. Stuart.

tc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.

t is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.

To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting. Dryden.

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

companied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.

id which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.

To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise. To vilipend the art of portrait painting. Longfellow.

reaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart.

ct which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc.

A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.

Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry. Shak. Fairholt.

te with brownish dots. Called also bee moth. -- Wax myrtle. (Bot.) See Bayberry. -- Wax painting, a kind of painting practiced by the ancients, under the name of encaustic. The pigments were ground with wax, and diluted. After being applied, the wax was melted with hot irons and the color thus fixed. -- Wax palm. (B…

hite lark (Zoöl.), the snow bunting. -- White lead. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. -- White leather, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. -- White leg (Med.), milk leg. See under Milk. -- White lettuce (Bot.), ra…

exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word. -- Word painting, the act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. -- Word picture, an accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the m…

The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker.

e, etc. -- Naples yellow, a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt. -- Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called a…

consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with si…