Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To paint; depict; represent in colors, as by painting the resemblance of.
  • To describe or depict in words.
  • To mark with or as with color; stain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle obsolete Painted.
  • transitive verb obsolete To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.
  • transitive verb To mark with, or as with, color; to color.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic To depict; to paint; to portray; to delineate.
  • verb archaic To depict in words; to describe graphically.
  • verb archaic To colour; to decorate with colours.
  • verb archaic To stain; to distain.
  • verb transitive To remove paint from.

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