Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAINT, v.t. [Fr. peindre, peignant, peint; L. pingo, pictus; Sp. pintar; It. pignere or pingere, to throw, to push, to paint. The elements are probably Pg or Pk, as in fingo, fictus.]

1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.
2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.
3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form. When folly grows romantic, we must paint it. – Pope.
4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe. Disloyal! / The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. – Shak.
5. To color; to diversify with colors. – Spenser.
6. To lay on artificial color for ornament. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. – 2 Kings ix.