Definition of Painteng

Definition of Painteng

Paint"ing, n. 1. The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

2. (Fine Arts) 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. [R.] Shak.

4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

Syn. -- See Picture.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and
exposing them to the critic.
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work:
the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between
the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

an illustration or artwork done with the use of paints
present participle of the transitive and intransitive verb, to paint

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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