reredos
         n 1: a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar
               or communion table [syn: {altarpiece}, {reredos}]

English Dictionary: reredos	by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rarity \Rar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Rarities}. [L. raritas: cf. F.       raret[82]. See {Rare}.]       1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness;             as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reardorse \Rear"dorse\, Reardoss \Rear"doss\, n.       A reredos.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reredos \Rere"dos\ (r?r"d?s), n. [From rear + F. dos back, L.       dorsum. Cf. {Dorsal}.] (Arch.)       (a) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.       (b) The back of a fireplace.       (c) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted,             immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient             halls. [Also spelt {reredosse}.] --Fairholt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reredos \Rere"dos\ (r?r"d?s), n. [From rear + F. dos back, L.       dorsum. Cf. {Dorsal}.] (Arch.)       (a) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.       (b) The back of a fireplace.       (c) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted,             immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient             halls. [Also spelt {reredosse}.] --Fairholt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ruridecanal \Ru`ri*dec"a*nal\, a. [L. rus, ruris the country +       decanus the chief of ten. See {Dean}.]       Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district;       the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]