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Webster 1913 Edition
Attire
At-tire′
,Verb.
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.
Finely
attired
in a robe of white. Shakespeare
With the linen miter shall he be
attired
. Lev. xvi. 4.
At-tire′
,Noun.
1.
Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Earth in her rich
attire
. Milton.
I ’ll put myself in poor and mean
attire
. Shakespeare
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her
attire
? Jer. ii. 32.
2.
The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3.
(Bot.)
The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Attire
ATTI'RE
, v.t.To dress; to array; to adorn with elegant or splendid garments.
With the linen miter shall Aaron be attired. Lev. 16.
ATTI'RE
,Noun.
1.
Dress; clothes; habit; but appropriately, ornamental dress.Can a bride forget her attire. Jer. 2.
2.
The horns of a deer.3.
In botany, the generative parts of plants. florid attire, called thrums or suits, as in the flowers of marygold or tansy, consists of two or three parts, of which the outer part is the floret. semiform attire consists of the chives and apexes. This language is now obsolete.