Word Meanings - MISPAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To paint ill, or wrongly.
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- PAINTING
The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation - PAINT
pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. 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. 2. Fig.: To - PAINTERSHIP
The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner. - PAINTED
Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are - PAINTER
A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin, - PAINTURE
The art of painting. Chaucer. Dryden. - PAINTERLY
Like a painter's work. "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney. - PAINTLESS
Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage. - PAINTY
Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. - WRONGLY
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak. - REPAINT
To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture. - OVERPAINT
To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh. - UNPAINT
To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell. - DEPAINT
Painted. Chaucer. - BEPAINT
To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak. - IMPAINT
To paint; to adorn with colors. "To impaint his cause." Shak. - POONAH PAINTING
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: - DEPAINTER
One who depaints. - MISPAINT
To paint ill, or wrongly.