Word Meanings - ALTARPIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

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• ALTARAGE
  1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
• SCULPTURESQUE
  After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
• SCULPTURE
  1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. 2. Carved work
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• ALTARWISE
  In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.
• PAINT
  pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• REREDOS
  A screen or partition wall behind an altar. The back of a fireplace. The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. Fairholt.
• ALTARPIECE
  The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• INSCULPTURED
  Engraved. Glover.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.