paint (pant)

[Early mod. E. also paynt, peinct; There be two tables of our ble yd Lady, which seynt Luke paynted with his awne handes at Padowa. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 6. She painted her face and tired her head. 2 Ki. ix. 30. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. Shak . , K. John, iv. 2. 11. 2. To depict or delineate in colors or paints of any kind, usually on a prepared surface; represent in colors; represent in a picture: as, to paint a landscape or a portrait; to paint a battle scene; also, to execute in colors: as, to paint a picture. The iiijth tyme he shewyd the pepyll a pictur poyntyd on a clothe, of the pa ion of our lorde. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 3. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold. Milton , P. L., v. 187. Knaves are men That... paint the gates of Hell with Paradise. Tennyson, Prince , iv. To paint coffee, to color the berries of coffee artificially with a view to defraud. To paint out. (a) See def. 3. (6) To erase or blot out by covering with pigments: as, to paint out an unsatisfactory picture. - To paint the town red, to go on a boisterous and disorderly spree. [Slang, U. S.] Mere horse-play; it is the cow-boy's method of painting the town red, as an interlude in his harsh monotonous life. The Century, XXXVI. 838. II. in trans. 1. To practise painting; use pigments in depicting faces, scenes, etc. My Lord mighty merry; among other things, saying that the Queen is a very agreeable lady, and paints well. Pepys , Diary, I. 282. 2. To lay artificial color on the face, usually with the view of beautifying it; hence, to blush. Let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Shak ., Hamlet, v. 1. 213. Mrs. Fitz. You make me paint , sir. Wit . They are fair colours, Lady, and natural! B. Jonson, Devil is an A , ii. 2. 3. To indulge in strong drink; drink. [Slang.] The Muse is dry, And Pegasus doth thirst for Hippocrene, And fain would paint - imbibe the vulgar call - Or hot or cold, or long or short. Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xxiv. ( Davies .) 41. To counterfeit; disguise. And y wole neithir glose ne peynt , But y waarne thee on the othir side. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 51. paint (pant), n. [ paint , v.] 1. A substance used in painting, composed of a dry coloring material intimately mixed with a liquid vehicle. It differs from a dye in that it is not designed to sink into the substance to which it is applied, but to form a super- ficial coating. The term pigment is sometimes restricted to the dry coloring material of which a paint is made. 2. Color laid on the face; rouge. His colours laid so thick on every place, As only show'd the paint , but hid the face. Dryden, To Sir Robert Howard, 1. 76. All paints may be said to be noxious. They injure the skin, obstruct perspiration, and thus frequently lay the foundation for cutaneous affections. Dunglison . 3. In rubber - manuf., any substance fixed with caoutchouc in the proce of manufacture, for the purpose of hardening it. Various materials are employed, such as whiting, plaster of Paris, sulphate of zinc, lampblack, pitch, etc. - Copper paint, a paint composed of finely divided metallic copper mixed with a medium, usually oil and wax, used to coat the bottoms of ve els to prevent fouling. - Indian paint. (a) The red Indian paint, Sanguinaria Can a dens is, the bloodroot. (b) The yellow Indian paint, Hydrastis Can a dens is, the yellow puccoon, or yellow root. - Lithic paint. See lithic2.- Luminous paint, a paint made by heating powdered oyster-shells and sulphur together in a closed crucible. This forms a poly sulphid of calcium, which is mixed with a mastic varnish to form the paint. The poly sulphid of calcium has the peculiar property of emitting in darkne light which it has previously absorbed. Luminous paint has been used for clock-dials, match-safes, lanterns for powder-magazines, etc. It has been suggested for many other purposes, but the amount of light emitted is so small that its practical application has failed except under a few special conditions. - Mineral paint, any dry earthy material powdered and used as a paint; specifically, a hematite iron ore so used. - Mixed paints, paints prepared by the manufacturer in a condition ready to be used by the consumer. Paint is usually sold in the form paint-burner (pānt'bėr"nėr), n. A gas-or oil- lamp, with a blowpipe, used to burn off old paint in order to prepare a surface for repainting. painted (pān'ted), p . a . 1. Coated or covered with paint, or with designs executed in colors. Now to the gude green-wood he's gane, She to her painted bower. IMG:content-2144.png:[blocks in formation] Painted-lady ( Pyrameis cardui). paintre , F. peintre = Sp. Pg. pint or = It. pin- tore , also (without the nasal, which is due to inf.) pittore , pictor , a painter, pingere , pp. pictus , paint: see pictor and paint .] One who paints. Specifically - ( a ) A workman who coats or cov- ers articles with paint: as, a house - painter or carriage- painter. (b) An artist who represents the appearance of natural or other objects on a plane or other surface by means of colors. Mine eye hath play'd the painter , and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart. After dinner I visited that excellent painter Verrio, whose works in fresco in the King's palace at Windsor will celebrate his name as long as those walls last. Evelyn , Diary, July 23, 1679. Painter's colic, lead-colic. - Painter's-easel larva. See pluteus . - Painter's etching. See etching . painter2 (pān pān'tér), n. [A var. of panter2 , q. v.] A rope attached to the bow of a boat, and used to fasten it to a stake, a ship, or other object.- Lazy painter, a small rope used for securing a boat in smooth water. - To cut one's painter, to set one adrift; hence, to send one away; hinder one from doing mischief The grappling vigour and rough frown of war Is cold in amity and painted peace. painterlyt (pān'ter-li), a . [ painter1 + -ly1 .] Like a painter. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, i. painter ship (pān'tėr-ship), n. [ painter1 + they deserve only to be laughed at, and not seriously con- sidered by us? Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. ii. Painted bat, a bat of the genus Kerivoula : so called from the bright and varied colors, which make them appear By woe, the soul to daring action swells; By woe, in paint le patience it excels. And Nature's paintments , red, and yellow, blew, With colours plenty round about him grew. IMG:content-2145.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2146.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2147.jpg:[ocr errors] Right as she [Nature] kan peynte a lilie whit And reed a rose, right with swich peynture She peynted hath this noble creature. ing painty, or overcharged with paint: said of 2. Paint or painted decoration. a picture. painting (pān'ting), n. [ peintunge , peynt- ynge, poyntynge ; verbal n. of paint , v .] 1. The act, art, or employment of laying on paints. Specifically, the art of forming figures or representing ob- jects in colors on any surface; or the art of representing, by means of figures and colors applied on a surface, ob- jects presented to the eye or to the imagination, in gen- eral in such a manner as to produce the appearance of This is the very painting of your fear: This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 4. 61. IMG:content-2148.png:[blocks in formation] Encaustic painting. See encaustic . - Florentine school of painting. See Renai ance . - Graffito painting. See graffito. - Gray cameo-painting, a method of gla -paint- producing a sort of light-gray monochrome. - Ionic school painting. See Italian, mural, etc., paint- ing. See the qualifying words. - Muffle-painting. See muffle1 . paint le (pānt'les), a . [ paint + -le .] 1. Without paint. - 2. Incapable of being painted or represented; not to be painted or described. [Rare.] pair1 (par), n. [ paire , payre , peire , peyre , peir, peer, peere , per , a pair (applied to any number of like things), paire , peire , F. paire , f., also OF. pair , m., a pair, couple, = Sp. Pg . par = It. paro , pajo = D. paar = MLG. pār , MHG. pār , bār , G. paar = Icel. par = Sw. Dan. par , . par , a pair, par , equal: see par2 , per identic things of a kind, similar in form, in purpose, and matched or used together: as, a pair of gloves; a pair of shoes. Let it then suffice To drown one woe, one pair of weeping eyes. Shak., Lucrece, L. 1680. Two Pair of the purest white worsted Stockings you can get of Womens Size. Howell, Letters, I. i. 14. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary pair 2. A single thing composed e entially of two pieces or parts which are used only in combination and named only in the plural: as, a pair of sci ors, trousers, or spectacles. With that the wicked carle, the maister Smith, A paire of red-whot yron tongs did take Out of the burning cinders, and therewith Under his side him nipt. Spenser, F. Q., IV. v. 44. Lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. Rev. vi. 5. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 90. Set Forms are a pair of Compa es. 4235 And peyer of grett Candylstykes. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 11. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair. Cowper , John Gilpin. "Come to my dre ing-room, Becky, and let us abuse the company"-which, between them, this pair of friends did perfectly. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xi. A human heart should beat for two, Whate'er may say your single scorners; And all the hearths I ever knew Had got a pair of chimney-corners. F. Locker, Old Letters. Specifically-4. A married couple; in general, two mated animals of any kind. Alle shullen deye for hus dedes by dales and hulles, And the foules that flen forth with othere bestes, Except onliche of eche kynde a peyre , That in thy shynglede schip with the shal be saued. Piers Plowman (C), xi. 231. Two women faster welded in one love Than pairs of wedlock. Tennyson, Prince , vi. 5. A set of like or equal things: restricted to a few (mostly obsolete) phrases: as, a pair (or pack) of cards; a pair (or flight) of stairs; a pair of organs (that is, a set of organ-pipes, hence an organ); a pair of gallows (that is, a gibbet); a pair of beads (see bead ). Of smal coral abowte hire arm she baar A peire of bedes gauded al with grene. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 159. What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 74. I ha' nothing but my skin, And my clothes; my sword here, and myself; Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards. Fletcher (and another ), Sea Voyage, i. 1. Prudence took them into the dining-room, where stood a pair of excellent virginals. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , ii. Though you live up two pair of stairs, is any home hap pier than yours, Philip? Thackeray , Adventures of Philip, xxxiv. 6. In archery, a set of three arrows.-7. In mining , a set or gang of men working together at the same hours.-8. In deliberative bodies, two members belonging to opposing parties who for their own convenience (as to permit one or both of them to be absent) arrange with each other to refrain from voting for a specified time or on a specified question, thus nullifying a vote on each side; also, the arrangement thus effected. See pairing1 .-9. In poker , two of the same denomination, without regard to suit or color: as, a pair of aces or deuces. - A pair of colors, the two flags carried by an infantry regiment, as in the armies of Great Britain and the United States: one of these flags is the national ensign or some modification of it, and the other bears devices, mottos, etc., peculiar to the regiment. A pair of knivest. See knife.- Contractible, expansible, etc., pair. See the adjectives. Double pair royal, four similar cards, as four kings.Pair royal (also contracted pairialt, parialt, prialt ), three similar things; specifically, three cards of a kind in certain games, as three kings or three queens. Hath that great pair - royal Of adamantine sisters late made trial Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair , That never mean to part. 2. To suit; fit; match. Jewel of children, seen this Well with this lord. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 154. Had our prince, hour, he had pair'd pakald Nethele e I ge e all thing is to be peyrement for the cleer science of Jesus Crist my Lord, for whom I made alle thing is peyrement. Wyclif, Phil. iii. 8. Engle his wife he drofe away, & held in peyrment . Rob . of Brunne , p. 58. pair-toed (par'tōd), a. In ornith ., yoke-toed or zygo- dactyl; having the toes in pairs, two before and two 1 behind. See zygodactyl . pair trick (par'trik), n. dialectal (Scotch) form of partridge . A pairwise (par'wiz), adv. [ Such as continued refractory he tied together by the beards, and hung pairwise over poles. Carlyle. Shak., W. T., v. 1. 116. paislt, n. This with the other should, at least, have pair'd . Milton , S. A., 1. 208. Ethe linda! My heart was made to fit and pair with thine. Rowe, The Royal Convert, iii. To pair off. (a) To separate from a company in pairs or couples. At the end of the third set supper was announced; and the party, pairing off like turtles, adjourned to the supper-room. Peacock , Headlong Hall, xiii. (b) To abstain from voting by arrangement with a member of the opposite party to do the same said of members of deliberative a emblies. See pairing1, The judges are certainly the hardest-worked cla of office-holders-except members of Congre in se ion, and even they can pair off . The Century, XXX. 329. II. trans . 1. To join in couples; specifically, to cause to mate: as, to pair a canary with a siskin. Minds are so hardly matched, that even the first, Though paired by Heaven, in Paradise were cursed. Dryden, To John Dryden, 1. 22. Turtles and doves of differing hues unite, And glo y jet is pair'd with shining white. Pope , tr. of Ovid's Sappho to Phaon, 1. 44. 2. To unite or a ort in twos as well suited to each other. 4 3 2 Pair-toed or Zygodactyl Foot of Woodpecker, with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, of which the 4th is the reversed one. A Middle English form of peace . pais2+ (pā), n. [ pais , F. pays , country: see peasant .] Inlaw , the people from among whom a jury is taken. Act in pais. See act . - Estoppel en pais. See estoppel . In pais, in pays, literally, in the country, or in the community; in the knowledge or judgment of the vicinage. The phrase, in its original use, has no exact equivalent in modern English. - Per pais, by a jury of the country. Questions of facts coming before the common-law courts were mostly determined per pais . The chief if not the only exception was where a question was made as to a matter depending upon a record, in which case no jury was called, but the trial was by bare inspection of the record. From these two cla es of trials came the custom of designating matters which if litigated could not be determined by the record as matters in pais .