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To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.

One whose occupation is to paint; esp.:

Like a painter's work. [Obs.] "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.

The state or position of being a painter. [R.] Br. Gardiner.

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.

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

Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. [Cant]

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.

Painted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who depaints. [Obs.]

To paint; to adorn with colors. [R.] "To impaint his cause." Shak.

To paint ill, or wrongly.

To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.

A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter, etc.

To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.

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

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

e military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.