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Paint

To cover with coloring matter to apply paint to as to paint a house a signboard etc...


fingerpaint

A type of paint having the consistency of a thin paste or jelly which is applied to a surface by dipping fingers into the paint and smearing the paint on the surface usually in artistic patterns It is used primarily by children...


Bepaint

To paint to cover or color with or as with paint...


Building

Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...


paintbox

A box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists paint...


paintbrush

A brush used to apply paint...


Painted

Covered or adorned with paint portrayed in colors...


Pigment

Any material from which a dye a paint or the like may be prepared particularly the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle...


Portray

To paint or draw the likeness of as to portray a king on horseback...


Repaint

To paint anew or again as to repaint a house to repaint the ground of a picture...


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