n. pl. (Med.) The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ F. dépeint, p. p. of dépeindre to paint, fr. L. depingere. See Depict, p. p. ] Painted. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depainting. ] 1. To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And do unwilling worship to the saint
That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark with, or as with, color; to color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who depaints. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To paint{ 1 } with fingerpaint.
Syn. -- use fingerpaint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A type of paint having the consistency of a thin paste or jelly, which is applied to a surface by dipping fingers into the paint and smearing the paint on the surface, usually in artistic patterns. It is used primarily by children. [ PJC ]

n. Creating pictures using finger paint. [ PJC ]

n.[ F. gagner to gain + pain bread. ] Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a greasy substance containing pigments, used as makeup by actors, clowns, and other entertainers; as, the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. Theatrical makeup, generally. [ PJC ]

v. t. To paint; to adorn with colors. [ R. ] “To impaint his cause.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To paint ill, or wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pained p. pr. & vb. n. Paining. ] [ OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n. ] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am pained at my very heart. Jer. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [ Obs. ] “She pained her to do all that she might.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. poinh` penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish, Punish. ] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. “The pain of Jesus Christ.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally interpreted as originating at the peripheral end of the nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. [ 1913 Webster ]

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

In rapture as in pain. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. See Pains, labor, effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill. --
To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. pénible. ] Causing pain; painful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Made to suffer mental pain.
Syn. -- offended. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.
Syn. -- pain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. painime pagans, paganism, fr. OF. paienisme paganism, LL. paganismus. See Paganism, Pagan. ] A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [ Written also panim and paynim. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A medicine used in to relieve pain.
Syn. -- analgesic, anodyne, pain pill. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Free from pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly, adv. -- Pain"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. “Painstaking men.” Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worth the pains or care bestowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. piç 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cuckoo buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disloyal?
The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let her paint an inch thick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (a) A pigment or coloring substance. (b) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cosmetic; rouge. Praed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Lending itself to being painted; as, a highly paintable landscape; made of sturdy eminently paintable wood. Opposite of unpaintable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A brush used to apply paint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painted beauty (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly. --
Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as African wild dog.
Syn. -- African wild dog, African hunting dog. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE, pantere a noose, snare, F. pantière, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. panqh`ra; pa^s all + qh`r beast; cf. Ir. painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear. ] (Naut.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt. of panther. ] (Zool.) The panther, or puma. [ A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S. ] J. F. Cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Paint. ] One whose occupation is to paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic. --
Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a painter's work. [ Obs. ] “A painterly glose of a visage.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or position of being a painter. [ R. ] Bp. Gardiner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A device designed to rapidly cover a surface with paint by ejecting a spray of paint from a reservoir onto the surface by means of compressed air or other special mechanism. Also called a paint sprayer. Use of a paint gun is an efficient method to rapidly paint large surface areas. [ PJC ]

2. A device resembling a rifle, designed to shoot a small quantity of paint at an opponent as part of a game often conducted at specially-designed indoor locations, or outdoors. Points are awarded to players who hit their target; success in hitting one's target is made obvious by the appearance of a spot of paint on the player who is hit. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Color laid on; paint. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being painted or described. “In paintless patience.” Savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. peinture. See Paint, v. t., and cf. Picture. ] The art of painting. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Papaw. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Poona, in Bombay Province, India. ] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence:
Poonah brush,
paper,
painter, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. paint packaged in a spray can. [ PJC ]

v. t. To paint (a surface) by means of a spray, using a spray can or spray gun. [ PJC ]