Word Meanings - SALTARELLO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to SALTARELLO)

• DANCER
  One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• DANCERESS
  A female dancer. Wyclif.
• POPULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• ITALIAN
  Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• DANCETTE
  Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• QUICKEN TREE
  The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
• QUICKWORK
  All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
• TARANTELLA
  A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia. Music
• QUICK-WITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• RUNNING
  Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
• QUICKENS
  Quitch grass.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• OUTRECUIDANCE
  Excessive presumption. B. Jonson.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.