Paint"ing, n.
1.
The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
2. Fine Arts
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.
[R.]
Shak.
4.
A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
Syn. -- See Picture.
© Webster 1913.