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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Attire

At-tīre’, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ATTIRED; p. pr. & vb. n. ATTIRING.] [O. Fr. attirer, atirer, to array, dispose, adorn; Pr. atieyrar, O. Fr. tiere, Pr. tieira, rank, order; A-S. tier, series, attire; O. H. Ger. ziari, N. H. Ger. zier, ornament, zieren, to adorn, attire. See TIRE.] To dress; to array; to adorn; especially, to adorn with elegant or splendid garments. “Finely attired in a robe of white.” Shak.

With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

At-tīre', n.

noun

n. 1. Dress; clothes; habit; but appropriately, ornamental dress. “Earth in her rich at-tire.” Milton. Can a bride forget her attire? Jer. ii. 32.

  1. (Her.) The horns of a deer.
  2. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the empalement, or calyx, and the foliation, or corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.