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ne or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

A chaplain.

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

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

See 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.

A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.

e acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then the…

The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.

d Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

d sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

so, a kind of pigeon. Barbary ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

gus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 S…

sting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.

A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.

he feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.