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2. Noun. (plural of paint) ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of paint) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paints

1. paint [v] - See also: paint

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paints

Literary usage of Paints

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"INTRODUCTION OF Paints AFTER THE REVOLUTION. — FIRST WHITE LEAD FACTORY IN THE ... Paints in general include the coarse and fine paints used in ship and ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"Ladd's contribution to the present volume is a dissertation on Mixed Paints in general, with particular reference to their truthful labeling and to the ..."

3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Depending upon whether or not the bituminous paints and cements contain a pigment or filler, they may be divided into two general classes, viz. ..."

4. Industrial Chemistry: A Manual for the Student and Manufacturer by Allen Rogers (1920)
"As these paints are used below the water line they are made with a rapid ... Pine tar oil and turpentine are also used in these paints to some extent. ..."

5. A Treatise on Civil Engineering by Dennis Hart Mahan (1877)
"Paints are mainly used as protective agents to secure wood and metals from the ... Paints are mixtures of certain fixed and volatile oils, chiefly those of ..."

6. Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus: Explanations, Formulae, and ...by Eugen Hausbrand by Eugen Hausbrand (1903)
"Testing Paints — Use of Tar for Painting on Iron — Anti-corrosive Paints- Linseed Varnish — Chinese Wood Oil— Lead Pigments — Iron Pigments — Artificial ..."

7. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge, Charles Alexander Keane, E. Adam, P. Aulich, T. L. Bailey, C. O. Bannister (1914)
"Boiled linseed oil is used extensively for the preparation of paints and ... Linseed Oil Paints.—No great difficulties are involved in the testing of ..."

8. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"REFERENCES OH MINERAL Paints 1. Agthe and Dynan, US Geol. Surv., Min. Res., 1908. Chapter on Mineral Paints. (Siderite, Pa.) 2. Anon., Calif. State Min. ..."

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