painter

9 definitions found

painter - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Painter \Paint"er\, 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.
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  Painter \Paint"er\ (p[=a]nt"[~e]r), n. [OE, pantere a noose,
     snare, F. panti[`e]re, 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.
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  Painter \Paint"er\, n. [Corrupt. of panther.] (Zool.)
     The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate
     pronunciation, U. S.] --J. F. Cooper.
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  Poonah painting \Poo"nah paint`ing\ [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.
  
     Note: Hence:
  
     Poonah brush,
  
     paper,
  
     painter, etc.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Puma \Pu"ma\ (p[=u]"m[.a]), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zool.)
     A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from
     Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its
     color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes.
     Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion
     , and panther or painter.
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  Boat \Boat\ (b[=o]t), n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to
     Icel. b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf.
     Bateau.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars
        or paddles, but often by a sail.
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     Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as,
           canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
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     2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive
        of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet
        boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is
        sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest
        class; as, the Cunard boats.
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     3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in
        shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
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     Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination;
           as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or
           boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat
           keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat
           racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     Advice boat. See under Advice.
  
     Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back,
        fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log,
        etc. --Totten.
  
     Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a
        painter.
  
     In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament.
        [Colloq.] --F. W. Newman.
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painter - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  painter
      n 1: an artist who paints
      2: a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
      3: a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for
         tying up (as when docking or towing)
      4: large American feline resembling a lion [syn: cougar,
         puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther,
         Felis concolor]

painter - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Painter, VA (town, FIPS 60296)
    Location: 37.58550 N, 75.78379 W
    Population (1990): 259 (113 housing units)
    Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 23420

painter - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "painter":
     Bacon, Bellows, Benton, Botticelli, Boucher, Buffet, Cassatt,
     Chirico, Constable, Copley, Corot, Correggio, Courbet, Daumier,
     David, Degas, Delacroix, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Dufy, Eakins, El Greco,
     Ensor, Feininger, Fra Angelico, Fragonard, Friesz, Gainsborough,
     Gauguin, Gleizes, Goya, Graves, Greuze, Gris, Grosz, Hals, Hodler,
     Hogarth, Homer, Hopper, Ingres, Kent, Kirchner, Leger, Leo,
     Limburg, Lippi, Manet, Mantegna, Marc, Marin, Marquet, Masaccio,
     Masolino, Masson, Michelangelo, Millet, Mondrian, Monet, Moses,
     Munch, Murillo, Nolde, Orozco, Ozenfant, Picabia, Picasso,
     Pissarro, Poussin, Raphael, Redon, Rembrandt, Remington, Riley,
     Rivera, Romney, Rousseau, Ryder, Sargent, Siberian tiger, Titian,
     Turner, Vandyke, Whistler, Wood, aquarellist, bobcat,
     cat-a-mountain, catamount, cheetah, colorist, cougar, de Kooning,
     historical painter, jaguar, landscapist, leopard, lion, luminarist,
     luminist, lynx, marine painter, miniaturist, monochromist,
     mountain lion, ocelot, oil-colorist, panther, pavement artist,
     polychromist, portrait painter, portraitist, puma, scene painter,
     scenewright, scenographer, simba, still-life painter, tiger,
     watercolorist, wildcat