English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Attire (n.)

Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.

Attire (n.)

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

Attire (n.)

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

Attired (imp. & p. p.)

of Attire

Attired (p. p.)

Provided with antlers, as a stag.

Attirement (n.)

Attire; adornment.

Attirer (n.)

One who attires.

Attiring (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Attire

Attitude (n.)

The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

Attitude (n.)

Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.

Attitude (n.)

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

Attitudinal (a.)

Relating to attitude.

Attitudinarian (n.)

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

Attitudinarianism (n.)

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

Attitudinize (v. i.)

To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Attitudinizer (n.)

One who practices attitudes.

Attle (n.)

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.

Attollent (a.)

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle.

Attonce (adv.)

At once; together.

Attone (adv.)

See At one.