paintbrush

A brush for laying on paint. Paint-brushes are generally made of hogs' bristles, but for artistic purposes the hair of other animals, as the fitch, badger, sable, and camel, is employed. IMG:content-0553.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Lit .: Coated or covered with paint; colored; represented or drawn in colors. *2. Fig .: Artificial, counterfeit, unreal. "I called thee then, poor shadow, painted queen." Shakesp. Richard III., iv. 4. II. Botany ( of colors): Disposed in streaks of unequal intensity.