Word Meanings - ROMANCALENDAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total of 304 days. Numa added two months, Januarius at the beginning of the year, and Februarius at the end, making in all 355 days. He also ordered an intercalary month, Mercedinus, to be inserted every second year. Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February. Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed, this calendar fell into confusion. It was replaced by the Julian calendar. In designating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day of the month. The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other months. The nones came on the eighth day (the ninth, counting the ides) before the ides. Thus, Jan. 13 was called the ides of January, Jan. 12, the day before the ides, and Jan. 11, the third day before the ides (since the ides count as one), while Jan. 14 was the 19th day before the calends of February.

• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• COUNTRYCLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• Countermine
  An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
• Firstly
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• Replace
  To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• MARCHETMERCHET
  In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
• Counterplot
  To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
• Having
  of Have
• Changeful
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.
• THREECOAT
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Countersealing
  of Counterseal
• Insert
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.
• Adder's-tongue
  A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
• Shouldering
  of Shoulder
• Consistence
  Alt. of Consistency
• THREESIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Counterterm
  A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend".
• Lateritious
  Like bricks; of the color of red bricks.
• Addititious
  Additive.

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