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.