Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. --2
Kings ix. 30.
2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with
colors; to diversify with colors.
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak.
Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with
delight. --Shak.
3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat
surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors
or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with
paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe
vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her
wickedness. --Shak.
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope.
Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch;
draw; describe.
As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
--Coleridge.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted
turtle; painted bunting.
{Painted beauty} (Zo["o]l.), a handsome American butterfly
({Vanessa Huntera}), having a variety of bright colors,
{Painted cup} (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs
({Castilleia}) in which the bracts are usually
bright-colored and more showy than the flowers.
{Castilleia coccinea} has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and
is common in meadows.
{Painted finch}. See {Nonpareil}.
{Painted lady} (Zo["o]l.), a bright-colored butterfly. See
{Thistle butterfly}.
{Painted turtle} (Zo["o]l.), a common American freshwater
tortoise ({Chrysemys picta}), having bright red and yellow
markings beneath.