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
  See CHAUCER
• PAINTERLY
  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.