To coat or cover with a color or colors; color or cover with a paint or pigment.To depict or delineate in colors or paints of any kind, usually on a prepared surface; represent in colors; represent in a picture: as, to paint a landscape or a portrait; to paint a battlescene; also, to execute in colors: as, to paint a picture.Figuratively, to delineate, depict, or describe in words; present vividly to the mind's eye; set forth or represent as in a picture: formerly with out: as, to paint the joys of heaven.To color, deck, decorate, or diversify; ornament; adorn.To erase or blot out by covering with pigments: as, to paint out an unsatisfactory picture.To practise painting; use pigments in depicting faces, scenes, etc.To lay artificial color on the face, usually with the view of beautifying it; hence, to blush.To indulge in strong drink; drink.To counterfeit; disguise.n. A substance used in painting, composed of a dry coloring material intimately mixed with a liquid vehicle.n. Color laid on the face; rouge.n. In rubber-manuf., any substance fixed with caoutchouc in the process of manufacture, for the purpose of hardening it. Various materials are employed, such as whiting, plaster of Paris, sulphate of zinc, lampblack, pitch, etc.n. The yellow Indian paint, Hydrastis Canadensis, the yellow puccoon, or yellowroot.n. An abbreviation of painting.