Word Meanings - RHYPAROGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• 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
• 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,
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• STILLROOM
  1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
• 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
• STILL-HUNT
  A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
• GENRE
  A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• 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
• STILLATORY
  1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
• STILL-CLOSING
  Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
• STILLATITIOUS
  Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
• STILL-BURN
  To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• PISTILLATION
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• INSTILLER
  One who instills. Skelton.