Word Meanings - PAINTERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Like a painter's work. "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.
Related words: (words related to PAINTERLY)
- 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, - PAINTERSHIP
The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner. - VISAGED
Having a visage. Shak. - VISAGE
The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face. Chaucer. "A visage of demand." Shak. His visage was so marred more than any man. Isa. lii. 14. Love and beauty still that visage grace. Waller. - GLOSER
See GLOSSER - GLOSE
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Like a painter's work. "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney. - BRASS-VISAGED
Impudent; bold. - HARD-VISAGED
Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. Burke. - ENVISAGE
To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. Keats. From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. McCosh. - ENVISAGEMENT
The act of envisaging. - DEPAINTER
One who depaints.