Paint ( poker )

1) Face card (King, Queen and Jack).
2) Daub (Markings put on cards with paint, ink, or some other fluid.).
3) In lowball, catch a face card (on the draw). "Paired and painted and nearly fainted" means, drawing two (or more cards), a player paired one of his original cards and also caught a face card, and now he's complaining about his luck; such a catch in lowball is the ultimate insult (and should teach the player not to draw more than one card).