Word Meanings - CRESSELLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.

• Durante
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• Durity
  Hardness; firmness.
• Rattle-headed
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• Romancy
  Romantic.
• Romanticist
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
• DURIANDURION
  The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
• Churchdom
  The institution, government, or authority of a church.
• Churchwardenship
  The office of a churchwarden.
• Churchy
  Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.
• Duration
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
• Durometer
  An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.
• Rattlemouse
  A bat.
• Romanesque
  Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
• Romanticly
  Romantically.
• LATTERDAY
  Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.
• Churchgoer
  One who attends church.
• Churchyard
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
• Durative
  Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
• Durous
  Hard.
• Rattlepate
  A rattlehead.

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