The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Painter \Paint"er\ (p[=a]nt"[~e]r), n. [OE, pantere a noose,
   snare, F. panti[`e]re, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting
   net, fr. Gr. panqh`ra; pa^s all + qh`r beast; cf. Ir.
   painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.] (Naut.)
   A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
   --Totten.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Painter \Paint"er\, n. [Corrupt. of panther.] (Zool.)
   The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate
   pronunciation, U. S.] --J. F. Cooper.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Painter \Paint"er\, n. [See 1st Paint.]
   One whose occupation is to paint; esp.:
   (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like,
       with paint.
   (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a
       flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
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   Painter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic.

   Painter stainer.
   (a) A painter of coats of arms. --Crabb.
   (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing
       this name.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Poonah painting \Poo"nah paint`ing\ [From Poona, in Bombay
   Province, India.]
   A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century,
   in which a thick opaque color is applied without background
   and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing
   flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work.

   Note: Hence:

   Poonah brush,

   paper,

   painter, etc.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Puma \Pu"ma\ (p[=u]"m[.a]), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zool.)
   A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from
   Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its
   color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes.
   Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain
   lion, and panther or painter.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Boat \Boat\ (b[=o]t), n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to
   Icel. b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf.
   Bateau.]
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   1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars
      or paddles, but often by a sail.
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   Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as,
         canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
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   2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive
      of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet
      boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is
      sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest
      class; as, the Cunard boats.
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   3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in
      shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
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   Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination;
         as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or
         boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat
         keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat
         racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.
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   Advice boat. See under Advice.

   Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back,
      fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log,
      etc. --Totten.

   Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a
      painter.

   In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament.
      [Colloq.] --F. W. Newman.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

painter
    n 1: an artist who paints
    2: a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
    3: a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for
       tying up (as when docking or towing)
    4: large American feline resembling a lion [syn: cougar,
       puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther,
       Felis concolor]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

121 Moby Thesaurus words for "painter":
   Bacon, Bellows, Benton, Botticelli, Boucher, Buffet, Cassatt,
   Chirico, Constable, Copley, Corot, Correggio, Courbet, Daumier,
   David, Degas, Delacroix, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Dufy, Eakins, El Greco,
   Ensor, Feininger, Fra Angelico, Fragonard, Friesz, Gainsborough,
   Gauguin, Gleizes, Goya, Graves, Greuze, Gris, Grosz, Hals, Hodler,
   Hogarth, Homer, Hopper, Ingres, Kent, Kirchner, Leger, Leo,
   Limburg, Lippi, Manet, Mantegna, Marc, Marin, Marquet, Masaccio,
   Masolino, Masson, Michelangelo, Millet, Mondrian, Monet, Moses,
   Munch, Murillo, Nolde, Orozco, Ozenfant, Picabia, Picasso,
   Pissarro, Poussin, Raphael, Redon, Rembrandt, Remington, Riley,
   Rivera, Romney, Rousseau, Ryder, Sargent, Siberian tiger, Titian,
   Turner, Vandyke, Whistler, Wood, aquarellist, bobcat,
   cat-a-mountain, catamount, cheetah, colorist, cougar, de Kooning,
   historical painter, jaguar, landscapist, leopard, lion, luminarist,
   luminist, lynx, marine painter, miniaturist, monochromist,
   mountain lion, ocelot, oil-colorist, panther, pavement artist,
   polychromist, portrait painter, portraitist, puma, scene painter,
   scenewright, scenographer, simba, still-life painter, tiger,
   watercolorist, wildcat



U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Painter, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
   Population (2000):    246
   Housing Units (2000): 117
   Land area (2000):     0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            60296
   Located within:       Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
   Location:             37.585632 N, 75.783445 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     23420
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Painter, VA
    Painter