With the linen mitre shall he be attired. Lev. Now the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms. ATTIRE. n. s. from the verb.]

1. Clothes; dress; habit.

Philips.

It is no more disgrace to Scripture to have left. things free to be ordered by the church, than for Nature to have left it to the wit of man to devise his own attire. Hooker.

After that the Roman attire grew to be in account, and the gown to be in use among them. Davies on Ireland.

Thy sumptuous buildings, and thy wife's at-
tire,

Hath cost a mass of publick treasury. Shaksp.
And in this coarse attire, which I now wear,
With God and with the Muses I confer. Donne.
When lavish nature, with her best attire,
Clothes the gay spring, the season of desire.
Waller.
I pass their form, aud ev'ry charming grace;
But their attire, like liveries of a kind,
All rich and rare, is fresh within my mind.

Dryden. 2. [In hunting.] The horns of a buck or stag.

3. [In botany.] The flower of a plant is divided into three parts, the empalement, the foliation, and the attire, which is either florid or semiform. Florid attire, called thrums or suits, as in the flowers of marigold and tansey, consists sometimes of two, but commonly of three, parts. The outer part is the floret, the body of which is divided at the top, like the cowslip flower, into five distinct parts. Semiform attire consists oftwo parts, the chives and apices; one upon each attire. Dict. ATTIRER. 7. s. [from attire.] One that attires another; a dresser. Dict. ATTITUDE. n. s. [attitude, Fr. from atto, Ital.] The posture or action in which a statue or painted figure is placed.

Bernini would have taken his opinion upon the beauty and attitude of a figure. Prior. They were famous originals that gave rise to statues, with the same air, posture, and attitudes. Addison. ATTO'LLENT. adj. [atollens, Lat.] That raises or lifts up.

I shall farther take notice of the exquisite libration of the attollent and depriment muscles. Derham's Physico-Theology. ATTORNEY. n. s. [attornatus, low Lat. from tour, Fr. Celui qui vient à tour d'autrui; qui alterius vices subit.] J. Such a person as by consent, commandment, or request, takes heed, sees, and takes upon him the charge of other men's business, in their absence.

Attorney is either general or special: Attorney general is he that by general authority is appointed to all our affairs or suits; as the attorney general of the king, which is nearly the same with Procurator Casaris in the Roman empire. Attorneys general are made either by the king's letters patent, or by our appointment before justices in eyre in open court. Attorney special, or particular, is he that is employed in one or more causes particularly specified. There are also, in respect of the divers courts, attorneys at large, and attorneys special, belonging to this or that court only. Cowell.

Attorneys, in common law, are nearly the same with proctors in the civil law, and solicitors in courts of equity. Attorneys sue out writs or process, or commence, carry on, and defend, actions, or other proceedings, in the names of other persons, in the courts of common law. None are admitted to act without having served a clerkship for five years, taking the proper oath, being enrolled, and examined by the judges. The attorney general pleads within the bar. To him come warrants for making out pa tents, pardons, &c. and he is the principal ma❤ nager of all faw affairs of the crown. Chambers. I am a subject,

And challenge law attorneys are deny'd me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To mine inheritance. Shakspeare. The king's attorney, on the contrary, Urg'd on examinations, proofs, confessions. Shak. Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now an useless race. Pepe. 2. It was anciently used for those who did any business for another: now only in

Advertising, and holy to your business, Nor changing heart with habit, I am still Attornied to your service. Shakspeare. ATTORNEY SHIP. n. s. [from attorney.] The office of an attorney; proxy; vicarious agency.

But marriage is a matter of more worth, Than to be dealt in by attorneyship. Shakspeare. ATTO'URNMENT. n. s. [attournement, Fr.] A yielding of the tenant to a new lord, or acknowledgment of him to be his lord; for, otherwise, he that buyeth or obtaineth any lands or tenements of another, which are in the occupation of a third, cannot get possession. Corvell. To ATTRACT. v. a. [attrabo, attrac tum, Lat.]

1. To draw to something.

A man should scarce persuade the affections of the loadstone, or that jet and amber attractetb straws and light bodies. Brown's Vulgar Er. The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace. Hope. 2. To allure; to invite.

ATTRACTICAL. adj. [from attract.] Having the power to draw to it.

Some stones are endued with an electrical or attractical virtue. Ray on the Creation. ATTRACTION. n.s. [from attract.] 1. The power of drawing any thing.

The drawing of amber and jet, and other electrick bodies, and the attraction in gold of the spirit of quicksilver at distance; and the attraction of heat at distance; and that of fire to naphtha; and that of some herbs to water, though at distance; and divers others, we shall handle. Bacon. Loadstones and touched needles, laid long in quicksilver, have not amitted their attraction.

Brown's Vulgar Errours. Attraction may be performed by impulse, or some other means; I use that word, to signify any force by which bodies tend towards one another. Newton's Opticks. 2. The power of alluring or enticing. Setting the attraction of my good parts aside, I have no other charms. Shakspeare. ATTRACTIVE ad. [from attract.] 1. Having the power to draw any thing. What if the sun

Be centre to the world; and other stars,
By his attractive virtue, and their own,
Incited, dance about him various rounds? Milt.
Some, the round earth's cohesion to secure,
For that hard task employ magnetick pow'r;
Remark, say they, the globe with wonder own
Its nature, like the fam'd attractive stone.
Blackmore.

Bodies act by the attractions of gravity, magnetism, and electricity; and these instances make it not improbable but there may be more attractive powers than these. Newton.

2. Inviting; alluring; enticing

Milton.

Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies; For she hash blessed and attractive eyes. Shaksp. I pleas'd, and with attractive graces won, The Lost averse, thee chiefly. ATTRACTIVE. n. s. [from attract ] That which draws or incites; allurement: except that attractive is of a good or indifferent sense, and allurement generally bad.

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance; but the gospel speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. South. ATTRACTIVELY.adv.[from attractive.] With the power of attracting or drawing.

ATTRACTIVENESS. n. s. [from attractive.] The quality of being attractive. AITRACTOR. n. s. [from attract.] The agent that attracts; a drawer.

If the straws be in oil, amber draweth them not; oil makes the straws to adhere so, that they cannot rise unto the attractor. Brown's Vul. Er.

ATTRAHENT. 7. s. [attrahens, Lat.] That which draws.

Dict.

Our eyes will inform us of the motion of the steel to its attrahent. Glanville's Scepsis. AFTRECIATION. .n.s. [attrectatio, Lat.] Frequent handling. ATTRIBUTABLE. adj. [attribuo, Lat.] That may be ascribed or attributed; ascribable; imputable.

Much of the origination of the Americans seems to be attributable to the migrations of the Seres.

To their very bare judgment somewhat area, sonable man would attribute, notwithstanding the common imbecilities which are incident unto Our nature. Hooker.

We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Power and wisdom have no repugnancy in them. Tillotson. 2. To impute, as to a cause.

I have observed a campania determine con trary to appearances, by the caution and conduct of a general, which were attributed to his infirmities. Temple.

The imperfection of telescopes is attributed to spherical glasses; and mathematicians have propounded to figure them by the conical sections. Newton's Opticks, A'TTRIBUTE. n. s. [from the verb ] 1. The thing attributed to another, as perfection to the Supreme Being.

2.

Power, light, virtue, wisdom, and goodness, being all but attributes of one simple essence, and of one God, we in all admire, and in part discern.

Your vain poets after did mistake, Who ev'ry attribute a god did make.

Raleigh.

Dryden.

All the perfections of God are called his attributes; for he cannot be without them. Watts. Quality; characteristick disposition. They must have these three attributes; they must be men of courage, fearing God, and hating covetousness. Bacon.

3. A thing belonging to another; an appendant; an adherent.

His sceptre shews the force of temporal pow'r, The attribute to awe and majesty;

But mercy is above this scepter'd sway,
It is an attribute to God himself.

Shakspears. The sculptor, to distinguish him, gave him what the medalists call his proper attributes, a spear and a shield.

4. Reputation; honour.

It takes

Addison.

In this fine age, were not thought flattery, Such attribution should the Douglass have, As not a soldier of this season's stamp Should go so general current through the world Shakspeare. We suffer him to persuade us we are as gods, and never suspect these glorious attributions may be no more than flattery. Decay of Piety ATTRITE. adj. [attritus, Lat.] Ground; worn by rubbing.

Milson.

Or, by collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. ATTRITENESS. n. s. [from attrite.] The being much worn.

ATTRITION. n. s. [attritio, Lat.] 1. The act of wearing things, by rubbing one against another.

This vapour, ascending incessantly out of the abyss, and pervading the strata of gravel, and the rest, decays the bones and vegetables lodged in those strata; this fluid, by its continual attri tion, fretting the said bodies. Woodward.

The change of the aliment is effected by at trition of the inward stomach, and dissolvent li Arbuthnot. quor assisted with heat.

2. The state of being worn.

Hale.

3

To ATTRIBUTE. v.a. [attribuo, Lat.] 1. To ascribe; to givẹ; to yield as due.

With divines.] Grief for sin, arising only from the fear of punishment; the lowest degree of repentance.

To ATTUNE. v. a. [from tune.]
1. To make any thing musical.
Airs, vernal airs,

Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune
The trembling leaves.

Milton. 2. To tune one thing to another; as, he attunes his voice to his harp. ATTURNEY. n. s. See ATTORNEY. ATWEEN. adv. or prep. [See BETWEEN.] Betwixt; between; in the midst of two things. Obsolete.

Her loose long yellow locks, like golden wire, Sprinkled with peari, and pearling flowers atreen, Do, like a golden mantle, her attire. Spenser. ATWIXT. prep. [See BETWIXT.] in the middle of two things. Obsolete.

But with outrageous strokes did him restrain, And with his body barr'd the way atwixt them twain. Fairy Queen.

To AVAIL. v. a. [from valoir, Fr.; to avait being nearly the same with faire valoir.]

1. To profit; to turn to profit: with of -before the thing used.

Then shall they seek t'avail themselves of

Both of them avail themselves of those licences, which Apollo has equally bestowed on them. Dryden.

2. To promote; to prosper; to assist. Mean time he voyag'd to explore the will Of Jove, on high Dodona's holy hill, What means might best his safe return avail. Pope. To Av A'IL. v. n. To be of use; to be of advantage.

Nor can my strength avail, unless by thee Endued with force, I gain the victory. Dryden. When real merit is wanting, it avails nothing to have been encouraged by the great. Pope. AVAIL. n. 3. [from To avail.] Profit; advantage; benefit.

For all that else did come were sure to fail; Yet would he further none but for avail.

I charge thee,

Spenser.

As heav'n shall work in me for thine avail,
To tell me truly.
Shakspeare.
Truth, light upon this way, is of no more
avail to us than errour.
Locke.

AVAILABLE. adj. [from avail.]
1. Profitable; advantageous.

Mighty is the efficacy of such intercessions to avert judgments; how much more available then may they be to secure the continuance of blessings? Atterbury.

All things subject to action the will docs so far incline unto, as reason judges them more available to our bliss. Hooker.

2. Powerful; in force; valid.

Laws human are available by consent. Hooker. Drake put one of his men to death, having no authority nor commission available. Raleigh. AVAILABLENESS. n. s. [from available.] 1. Power of promoting the end for which it is used.

We differ from that supposition of the efficacy, or availableness, or suitableness, of these to the

AVA'ILMENT, n. s. [from avail.] Usefulness; advantage; profit.

To AVA'LE. v. a. [avaler, to let sink, Fr.] To let fall; to depress; to make abject; to sink. Out of use.

By that th' exalted Phabus 'gan avale His weary wain, and now the frosty night Her mantic black thro' heav'n 'gan overhale. Spenser. He did abase and avale the sovereignty into more servitude towards that see, than had been among us. Wotton.

To AVA'LE. v. n. To sink.

But when his latter ebb 'gins to avale, Huge heaps of mud he leaves. Spenser. AVANT. The front of an army. See VAN.

AVANTGUARD. n. s. [avantgarde, Fr.] The van; the first body of an army.

The horsemen might issue forth without disturbance of the foot, and the avantguard with out shuffling with the battail or arriere. Hayward. A'VARICE. n. s. [avarice, Fr. avaritia, Lat.] Covetousness; insatiable desire. There grows

In my most ill-compos'd affection, such
A stanchless avarice, that, were 1 king,

I should cut off the nobles for their lands. Sbak.
This avarice of praise in times to come,
Those long inscriptions crowded on the tomb.

Nor love his peace of mind destroys, Nor wicked avarice of wealth.

Dryden.

Dryden. L'Estrange.

Avarice is insatiable; and so he went still pushing on for more.

Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Pope.

AVARICIOUS. adj. [avaricieux, Fr.] Covetous; insatiably desirous.

Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful. Shak. This speech has been condemned as avaricious; and Eustathius judges it to be spoken artfully. Broome on the Odyssey. AVARICIOUSLY. adv. [from avaricious.] Covetously.

AVARICIOUSNESS.n.s. [from avaricious.] The quality of being avaricious. AVA'ST. adv. [from basta, Ital. it is enough.] Enough; cease: a word used among seamen.

AVA'UNT. interject. [avant, Fr.] A word of abhorrence, by which any one is driven away.

O, he is bold, and blushes not at death; Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!

Shakspeare.

After this process

To give her the avaunt! it is a pity
Would move a monster.

Shaksp. Henry VIII. Mistress! dismiss that rabble from your throne. Avaunt!-is Aristarchus yet unknown? Dunciad. AUBURNE. adj. [from aubour, bark, Fr.] Brown; of a tan colour.

Her hair is auburne, mine is perfect yellow.
Shakspeare.

His auburne locks on either shoulder flow'd, Which to the fun'ral of his friend he vow'd. Dryden.

Lo, how the arable with barley grain Stands thick o'ershadow'd; these, as modern use Ordains, infus'd, an auburne drink compose, Wholesome, of deathless fame. Philips.

AUCTION. n. s. [auctio, Lat.]

1. A manner of sale, in which one person

2.

And much more honest to be hir'd, and stand With auctionary hammer in thy hand, Provoking to give more, and knocking thrice For the whole houshold stuff, or picture's price. Dryden, AUCTIONIER. n. s. [from auction] The person that manages an auction. AUCTIVE. adj. [from auctus, Lat.] Of an increasing quality. AUCUPATION. n. s. [aucupatio, Lat.] Fowling; bird-catching.

Dict.

AUDA'CIOUS. adj. [audacieux, Fr. audax, Lat.] Bold; impudent; daring: always in a bad sense.

Such is thy audacious wickedness, Thy lewd, pestif'rous, and dissentious pranks. Shakspeare,

Till Jove, no longer patient, took his time T'avenge with thunder their audacious crime. Dryden. Young students, by a constant habit of disputing, grow impudent and audacious, proud and disdainful. Watts. AUDACIOUSLY. adv. [from audacious.] Boldly; impudently.

An angel shalt thou see, Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously. Shak. AUDACIOUS -Ess, n. s. [from audacious.] Impudence.

AUDA CITY. n. s. [from audax, Lat.] Spirit; boldness; confidence.

Lean, raw-bon'd rascals! Who would e'er suppose

They had such courage and audacity?

Shaksp. Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

For want of that freedom and audacity, necessary in commerce with men, his personal modesty overthrew all his publick actions. Tatler, AUDIBLE.caj. [audibilis, Lat.] 1. That may be perceived by hearing.

Visibles work upon a looking glass, and au dibles upon the places of echo, which resemble in some sort the cavern of the ear.

Bacon,

Eve, who unseen, Yet all had heard, with audible lament Discover'd soon the place of her retire. Milton. Every sense doth not operate upon fancy with the same force. The conceits of visibles are clearer and stronger than those of audibles. Grezo, 2. Loud enough to be heard.

One leaning over a well twenty-five fathom deep, and speaking softly, the water return'd an audible echo. Bacon.

AUDIBLENESS. n. s. [from audible.]
Capableness of being heard.
AUDIBLY. alv. [from audible.] In such
a manner as to be heard.

And last, the sum of all, my Father's voice,
Audibly heard from heav'n, pronounc'd me his.
Milton,

AUDIENCE. n. s. [audience, Fr.]

1. The act of hearing or attending to any thing.

Milton

Drew audience, and attention still as night,
Or summer's noon-tide air.

The liberty of speaking granted; a hearing

Were it reason to give men audience, pleading for the overthrow of that which their own deed hath ratified? Hooker

According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak, My holy lord of Milan, from the king. Shaksp 3. An auditory; persons collected to hear. Or, if the star of ev'ning and the moon Haste to thy audience, night with her will bring Silence. Milton

The hall was filled with an audience of the greatest eminence for quality and politeness.

Addison.

It proclaims the triumphs of goodness in a proper audience, even before the whole race of mankind, Atterbury. 4. The reception of any man who delivers a solemn message.

In this high temple, on a chair of state, The seat of audience, old Latinus sate. Dryden. AUDIENCE Court. A court belonging to the archbishop of Canterbury, of equal authority with the arches court, though inferiour both in dignity and antiquity. The original of this court was, because the archbishop of Canterbury heard se veral causes extra-judicially at home in his own palace; which he usually committed to be discussed by men learned in the civil and canon laws, whom he called his auditors: and so in time it became the power of the man, who is called causarum negotiorumque audientiæ Cantuariensis auditor, seu oficialis. Corvell. A'UDIT. n. s. [from audit, he hears, Lat.] A final account.

If they, which are accustomed to weigh all things, shall here sit down to receive our audit, the sum, which truth amounteth to, will appear to be but this. Hooker.

He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, and flush, as May;

And how his audit stands, who knows save heav'n?

Shaksp. Hamlet,

I can make my audit up, that all

From me do back receive the flow'r of all,
And leave me but the bran.

Shakspeare.

To A'UDIT. v. a [from audit.] To take an account finally.

Bishops ordinaries auditing all accounts, take twelve pence. Ayliffe's Parergon.

I love exact dealing, and let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed. Arbuthnot. AUDITION. n. s. \ auditio, Lat.] Hearing. AUDITOR. N. 5. [auditor, Lat.] I. A hearer.

Dear cousin, you that were last day so high in the pulpit against lovers, are you now become so mean an auditor? Sidney. What, a play tow'rd? I'll be an auditor; An actor too, perhaps.

Shakspeare.

This first doctrine, though admitted by many of his auditors, is expressly against the Epicu reans. Bentley.

A king's officer, who, yearly examining the accounts of all under-officers accountable, makes up a general book. AUDITORY, adj. [auditorius, Lat] That has the power of hearing.

Newton.

Is not hearing performed by the vibrations of some medium, excited in the auditory nerves by the tremours of the air, and propagated through the capillaments of those nerves? AUDITORY. n. s. [auditorium, Lat.] 1. An audience; a collection of persons assembled to hear.

Demades never troubled his head to bring his auditory to their wits by dry reason. L'Estrange. Met in the church, I look upon you as an auditory fit to be waited on, as you are, by both universities. South.

ment.

Several of this auditory were, perhaps, entire strangers to the person whose death we now laAtterbury. 2. A place where lectures are to be heard. A'UDITRESS. n. s. [from auditor.] The woman that hears; a she-bearer.

Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear

Of what was high: such pleasure she reserv'd, Adam relating, she sole auditress. Milton. A'VE MARY. n. s. [from the first words of the salutation to the blessed Virgin, Ave Maria. A form of worship repeated by the Romanists in honour of the Virgin Mary.

All his mind is bent on holiness,

To number Ave Maries on his beads. Shaksp. To AVEL. v. a [avello, Lat.] To pull

away.

The beaver in chase makes some divulsion of parts, yet are not these parts avelled to be termed testicles. Brown. A'VENAGE. n. s. [of avena, oats, Lat.] A certain quantity of oats paid to a landlord, instead of some other duties, or as a rent, by the tenant. Dict. To AVENGE. v. a. [venger, Fr.] 1. To revenge.

I will avenge me of mine enemies. Isaiah. They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.

Wisdom.

I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu. Hosca. 2. To punish.

Till Jove, no longer patient, took his time, T'avenge with thunder your audacious crime. Dryden. AVENGEANCE. n. s. [from avenge.] Punishment.

This neglected, fear Signal avengeance, such as overtook A miser.

Philips.

AVE'NGEMENT. n. s. [from avenge.] Vengeance; revenge.

That he might work th' avengement for his

shame

On those two caitives, which had bred him blame. Spenser.

2.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother, because that the Lord is the avenger of all such. 1 Thess. Ere this he had return'd, with fury driv'a By his avengers; since no place like this Can tit his punishment, or their revenge. Milt. Revenge; taker of vengeance for.

The just avenger of his injured ancestors, the victorious Louis, was darting his thunder. Dryd But just disease to hxury succeeds,

And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. Pope. AVENGERESS. n. s. [from avenger.] A female avenger. Not in use.

There that cruel queen avengeress Heap on her new waves of weary wretchedness. Fairy Queen A'VENS. n. s. [caryophyllata, Lat.] The Miller.

herb bennet. AVENTURE. 1. s. [aventure, Fr.] A mischance, causing a man's death, without felony; as when he is suddenly drowned, or burnt, by any sudden disease falling into the fire or water. See ADVENTURE. Cowell. A'VENUE. n. s. [avenue, Fr. It is sometimes pronounced with the accent on the second syllable, as Watts observes; but has it generally placed on the first.] 1. A way by which any place may be entered.

Good guards were set up at all the avenues of the city, to keep all people from going out.

Clarendon.

Truth is a strong hold, and diligence is laying siege to it: so that it must observe all the avenues. and passes to it. South.

2. An alley, or walk of trees, before a

house.

To AVE'R. v. a. [averer, Fr. from verum, truth, Lat. To declare positively, or peremptorily.

The reason of the thing is clear; Would Jove the naked truth aver.

Prior.

Then vainly the philosopher avers, That reason guides our deed, and instinct theirs. How can we justly diff'rent causes frame, When the effects entirely are the same? Prier. We may aver, though the power of God be infinite, the capacities of matter are within limits. Bentley A'VERAGE. n. s. [averagium, Lat.] 1. In law, that duty or service which the tenant is to pay to the king, or other lord, by his beasts and carriages.

Chambers. 2. In navigation, a certain contribution that merchants proportionably make towards the losses of such as have their goods cast overboard for the safety of the ship in a tempest; and this contribution seems so called, because it is proportioned after the rate of every man's average of goods carried. Corvelt

3. A small duty which merchants, who send goods in another man's ship, pay