Dictionary entry

Painting

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. Shak.

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

Syn. — See Picture.