Word Meanings - MINIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton. (more info) Etym:

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• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• MANUSCRIPT
  1. A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy. 2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript. Craik. Note: The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.
• PAINTING
  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
• MANUSCRIPTAL
  Manuscript.
• PAINT
  pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• VERMILION
  A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. Note: The kermes insect has long been used for
• TINGENT
  Having the power to tinge. As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.
• PAINTURE
  The art of painting. Chaucer. Dryden.
• PAINTERLY
  Like a painter's work. "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.
• TINGE
  A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge
• PAINTLESS
  Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.
• PAINTY
  Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
• TINGER
  One who, or that which, tinges.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.
• STINGER
  One who, or that which, stings. Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.
• ATTINGE
  To touch lightly. Coles.
• CONTINGENCY
  A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected. Syn. -- Casualty; accident; chance. (more info) 1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency."
• DEPAINT
  Painted. Chaucer.
• CONTINGENTLY
  In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
• CONTINGENCE
  See CONTINGENCY
• DEDECORATE
  To bring to shame; to disgrace. Bailey.