painter (3)

[See def.) A corruption of pan ther. ( United States.) *pāint-er-lý, a. [Eng. painter (1); -ly .] Like a painter's work. "It was a very white and red virtue, which you could pick out of a painterly glose of a visage."-Sidney Arcadia , bk. i. tpaint-er-ship, *paint-our-ship, subst. [Eng painter (1); -ship.) The state or condition of a painter. "Let him striue also to continue still in his chiefe paint our ship."-Bp. Gardner: Of True Obedience , fol. 47. paint'-ing, *paynt yng, pr . par ., adj . & subst. [PAINT, V.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The act, art, or occupation of laying on colors, or of producing upon a plane surface the form and color of objects by means of a pencil or crayon, and of various colored substances or pigments; the art or act of covering surfaces with pigments for decor ation or protection. Painting consists of two prin cipal parts: design, or the art of representing the contour of objects, and color, which gives to the object not only the color, but also the form and relief proper to each object. The different subjects with which painting is occupied are, historical, portrait, landscape, genre, sea-pieces, battle-pieces, fruit and flowers, miniature. The technical proce es of painting are, fresco, distemper, with an aqueous medium, encaustic, with a wax medium. In gla and enamel painting the medium is an e ential oil. The other medium is oil, with which the majority of paintings are executed. [DISTEM. PER, ENAMEL-PAINTING, FRESCO, GLASS-PAINTING.) "True poetry the painter's power displays; True painting emulates the poet's lays." Mason: Fresnoy; Art of Painting. 2. A picture; the representation or likene of anything executed in colors. *3. Color laid on; paint. "You'll stain your lips with oily painting ." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , v. 3. *paint'-Ing-ne , subst . [Eng.painting; -ne .] Picturesquene . "The expre ion and painting ne of the style." -Robberds: Memoirs of W. Taylor , i. 374.