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Aquarelle
noun · 78% connection
A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Asperse
verb · 78% connection
To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Basanite
noun · 78% connection
Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Brooch
noun · 78% connection
An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Canvas
noun · 78% connection
A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Chalk
noun · 78% connection
A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Chiaro-oscuro
noun · 78% connection
The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Crayon
noun · 78% connection
An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Diorama
noun · 78% connection
A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Distemper
verb · 78% connection
To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Dust
noun · 78% connection
Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Dusty
superl. · 78% connection
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Enamel
verb · 78% connection
A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Extraction
noun · 78% connection
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Fleet
n. & a. · 78% connection
To sail; to float.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Gouache
noun · 78% connection
A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Impression
noun · 78% connection
The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
Infucation
noun · 78% connection
The act of painting or staining, especially of painting the face.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, lighty, painting, drawing, thin.
