PAINT

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~, peint, past participle of peindre, from Latin pingere to tattoo, embroider, ~; akin to Old English fāh variegated, Greek poikilos variegated, pikros sharp, bitter Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to apply color, pigment, or ~ to, to color with a cosmetic, b. to apply with a movement resembling that used in ~ing, to treat with a liquid by brushing or swabbing , 2. a. to produce in lines and colors on a surface by applying pigments, to depict by such lines and colors, to decorate, adorn, or variegate by applying lines and colors, to produce or evoke as if by ~ing , to touch up or cover over by or as if by ~ing, to depict as having specified or implied characteristics , intransitive verb to practice the art of ~ing, to use cosmetics, II. noun Date: 1602 the action of ~ing ; something produced by ~ing, makeup , 3. a. a mixture of a pigment and a suitable liquid to form a closely adherent coating when spread on a surface in a thin coat, the pigment used in this mixture especially when in the form of a cake , an applied coating of ~, a powerful muscular pinto having quarter horse or Thoroughbred ancestry, free throw lane , computer-generated color design