Distemper (album)
WordNet
noun
(1) A method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
(2) A painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
(3) Paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
(4) An angry and disagreeable mood
(5) Any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
verb
(6) Paint with distemper
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- ...my spirits began to sink under the burden of a strong distemper, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the fever...
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- A water-based paint.
Quotations
- 1592–1609: I, sick withal, the help of bath desired, / And thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest, / But found no cure: the bath for my help lies / Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes. — William Shakespeare, Sonnet CLIII.