Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 105

Atramentaceous (a.) Black, like ink; inky; atramental.

Atramental (a.) Alt. of Atramentous

Atramentous (a.) Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

Atramentarious (a.) Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

Atrede (v. t.) To surpass in council.

Atrenne (v. t.) To outrun.

Atresia (n.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

Atrial (a.) Of or pertaining to an atrium.

Atrip (adv.) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

Atrip (adv.) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

Atria (pl. ) of Atrium

Atrium (n.) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

Atrium (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

Atrium (n.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

Atrium (n.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

Atrocha (n.) A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

Atrocious (a.) Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Atrocious (a.) Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.

Atrocious (a.) Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.

Atrocities (pl. ) of Atrocity

Atrocity (n.) Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

Atrocity (n.) An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

Atrophic (a.) Relating to atrophy.

Atrophied (p. a.) Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

Atrophy (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

Atrophied (p. p.) of Atrophy

Atrophy (v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Atrophy (v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.

Atropia (n.) Same as Atropine.

Atropine (n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

Atropism (n.) A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

Atropous (a.) Not inverted; orthotropous.

Atrous (a.) Coal-black; very black.

Atrypa (n.) A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

Attabal (n.) See Atabal.

Attacca () Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

Attached (imp. & p. p.) of Attach

Attaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attach

Attach (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

Attach (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

Attach (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

Attach (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

Attach (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.

Attach (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached.

Attach (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

Attach (n.) An attachment.

Attachable (a.) Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

Attache (v. t.) One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

Attachment (n.) The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

Attachment (n.) That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.

Attachment (n.) Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

Attachment (n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

Attachment (n.) The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.

Attacked (imp. & p. p.) of Attack

Attacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attack

Attack (v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.

Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

Attack (v. i.) To make an onset or attack.

Attack (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.

Attack (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

Attack (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.

Attack (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.

Attackable (a.) Capable of being attacked.

Attacker (n.) One who attacks.

Attagas (n.) Alt. of Attagen

Attagen (n.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

Attaghan (n.) See Yataghan.

Attained (imp. & p. p.) of Attain

Attaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attain

Attain (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

Attain (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.

Attain (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

Attain (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

Attain (v. t.) To overtake.

Attain (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

Attain (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

Attain (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

Attain (n.) Attainment.

Attainability (n.) The quality of being attainable; attainableness.

Attainable (a.) Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object.

Attainable (a.) Obtainable.

Attainableness (n.) The quality of being attainable; attainability.

Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder.

Attainder (n.) A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.

Attainment (n.) The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.

Attainment (n.) That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.

Attainted (imp. & p. p.) of Attaint

Attainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attaint

Attaint (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.

Attaint (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.

Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.

Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

Attaint (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.

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