{ } pos>n. [ F. abatis, abattis, mass of things beaten or cut down, fr. abattre. See Abate. ] (Fort.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Atticus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attic base (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and “Roman Doric” orders, and imitated by the architects of the Renaissance. --
Attic faith, inviolable faith. --
Attic purity, special purity of language. --
Attic salt,
Attic wit, a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians. --
Attic story. See Attic, n. --
Attic style, a style pure and elegant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ In sense (a) from F. attique, orig. meaning Attic. See Attic, a. ] 1. (Arch.) (a) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence: (b) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An Athenian; an Athenian author. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Attic. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To side with the Athenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. attiguus, fr. attingere to touch. See Attain. ] Touching; bordering; contiguous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

-- At*tig"u*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ L. attingere to touch. See Attain. ] To touch lightly. [ Obs. ] Coles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attired p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring. ] [ OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; à (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziarī, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress. ] To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earth in her rich attire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? Jer. ii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. (Her.) Provided with antlers, as a stag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attire; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. attitudine, LL. aptitudo, fr. L. aptus suited, fitted: cf. F. attitude. Cf. Aptitude. ] 1. (Paint. & Sculp.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Attitude, Posture. Both of these words describe the visible disposition of the limbs. Posture relates to their position merely; attitude refers to their fitness for some specific object. The object of an attitude is to set forth exhibit some internal feeling; as, attitude of wonder, of admiration, of grief, etc. It is, therefore, essentially and designedly expressive. Its object is the same with that of gesture; viz., to hold forth and represent. Posture has no such design. If we speak of posture in prayer, or the posture of devotion, it is only the natural disposition of the limbs, without any intention to show forth or exhibit. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is business of a painter in his choice of attitudes (posituræ) to foresee the effect and harmony of the lights and shadows. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never to keep the body in the same posture half an hour at a time. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to attitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attitudinizes; a posture maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A practicing of attitudes; posture making. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp. Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices attitudes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brettice. ] (Mining) (a) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation. (b) Planking to support a roof or wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. See Brattice, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Catlike; feline Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a flat pancakelike bread cooked on a griddle, originating in India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + attire: cf. OF. desatirier. ] To unrobe; to undress. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being fatty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. discrimination against people who are overweight.
Syn. -- fatism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mode of painting, in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flatting coat, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss. --
Flatting furnace. Same as flattening oven, under Flatten. --
Flatting mill. (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. (b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat flat. Woodward.

{ , a. Of or pertaining to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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Hallstatt civilization or
Hallstattian civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] The Hallstattian civilization flourished chiefly in Carinthia, southern Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, Silesia, Bosnia, the southeast of France, and southern Italy. J. Deniker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] --
Hallstattian epoch, the first iron age, represented by the Hallstatt civilization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Turk., fr. Ar. khatt a writing + sherīf noble. ] A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A caoutchouc-like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte lath. See Latten, 1st Lath. ] 1. Any work of wood, metal, plastic, or other solid material, made by crossing a series of parallel laths, or thin strips, with another series at a diagonal angle, and forming a network with openings between the strips; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. Judg. v. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Crystallography) The arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystal, represented as a repeating arrangement of points in space, each point representing the location of an atom or molecule; called also crystal lattice and space lattice. [ PJC ]

Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. --
Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. --
Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar (Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is Ouvirandra Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Latticed p. pr. & vb. n. Latticing ] 1. To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window. [ 1913 Webster ]

To lattice up, to cover or inclose with a lattice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Therein it seemeth he [ Alexander ] hath latticed up Caesar. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a lattice.
Syn. -- fretted, interlaced, latticelike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. same as latticed.
Syn. -- fretted, interlaced, latticed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Lattice, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bridge Building) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The type genus of the Marattiaceae, consisting of ferns having the sporangia fused together in two rows.
Syn. -- genus Marattia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. The natural family of ferns coextensive with the order Marattiales, consisting of chiefly tropical eusporantiate ferns with gigantic fronds.
Syn. -- family Marattiaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. An order of lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae.
Syn. -- order Marattiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Mat, v. t. & i. ] 1. The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Materials for mats. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Matte. ] A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. nécessitation. ] The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [ R. ] bp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Metal.) A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]