v. [UN-2 4.]
1. trans. To free from paint.
1611. Cotgr., Defarder, to vnpaint; to wash, take, or wype off, painting.
1844. P. Parley’s Ann., V. 265. Nothing now remained but to unpaint the young urchin; and so Sally … scrubbed till she was tired.
2. To paint out; to obliterate (something painted).
a. 1717. Parnell, Piety, 53. Unpaint the Love, that hov’ring over Beds, From glitt’ring Pinions guilty Pleasure sheds.
1755. Johnson, Dict., To Dislimn, to unpaint.
1866. Visct. Strangford, Select. (1869), II. 320. An unobtrusive little coronet which my wife has had painted … upon the panels of her carriage, and which I defy all the powers on earth … to induce her to unpaint.
