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English Dictionary: painted	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for painted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
painted adj coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [ant: unpainted] lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile" having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" Antonym(s): unpainted having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" Synonym(s): motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi- colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paint \Paint\ (p[amac]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Painted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Painting}.] [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. pi[cced] to adorn. Cf. {Depict}, {Picture}, {Pigment}, {Pint}.] 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 color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak. Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. --Shak. 3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape. 4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. --Shak. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope. Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Painted \Paint"ed\, a. 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. --Coleridge. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. {Painted beauty} (Zo[94]l.), a handsome American butterfly ({Vanessa Huntera}), having a variety of bright colors, {Painted cup} (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs ({Castilleia}) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. {Castilleia coccinea} has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows. {Painted finch}. See {Nonpareil}. {Painted lady} (Zo[94]l.), a bright-colored butterfly. See {Thistle butterfly}. {Painted turtle} (Zo[94]l.), a common American freshwater tortoise ({Chrysemys picta}), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.