Word Meanings - SFUMATO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• VAGUELY
  In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.
• 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
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• 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,
• MINGLEABLE
  That can be mingled. Boyle.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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
• MINGLEMENT
  The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• 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
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• MINGLE-MANGLE
  To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. Udall.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• MISTY
  1. Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere. 2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight. The more
• BEMINGLE
  To mingle; to mix.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• TRIMMINGLY
  In a trimming manner.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• FOAMINGLY
  With foam; frothily.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.