Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Painter \Paint"er\, n. [See lst {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.

   {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.

Colic \Col"ic\, n. [F. colique, fr. L. colicus sick with the
   colic, GR. ?, fr. ?, ?, the colon. The disease is so named
   from its being seated in or near the colon. See {Colon}.]
   (Med.)
   A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm,
   obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

   {Hepatic colic}, the severe pain produced by the passage of a
      gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile
      duct.

   {Intestinal colic}, or {Ordinary colic}, pain due to
      distention of the intestines by gas.

   {Lead colic}, {Painter's colic}, a violent form of intestinal
      colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by
      chronic lead poisoning.

   {Renal colic}, the severe pain produced by the passage of a
      calculus from the kidney through the ureter.

   {Wind colic}. See {Intestinal colic}, above.

Source : WordNet®

painter's colic
     n : symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with
         obstinate constipation [syn: {lead colic}]