A flat, rectangular, usually rigid briefcase commonly used to carry documents for business purposes.
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fastened together.
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.
The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
Capable of being attacked.
affected by disease.
One who attacks.
A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.
See Yataghan.
Attainment.
The quality of being attainable; attainableness.
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.
The quality of being attainable; attainability.
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.
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
A touch or hit.
Attainder; attainture; conviction.
Attainder; disgrace.
Same as Attle.
To pierce; to attack.
To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate.
A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.
To take to task; to blame.
To taste or cause to taste.
a type of skewer with an ornamental handle which is used for holding foods for presentation at the table, but not while cooking.
To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.
Temperance; attemperament.
To attemper.
The act of attempering or regulating.
Temperately.
Attemperament.
A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.
Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.
One who attempts; one who essays anything.
Disposed to attempt; adventurous.
To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to.
Attention; regard; careful application.
The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant.
One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
Intent.
One who, or that which, attends.
An attendant circumstance.
Attention; heed.
An attempt; an assault.
The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending.
seizing the attention
of or pertaining to attention.
Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.
the quality of paying careful attention; attentiveness to detail.
Attentively.
Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.
To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
Made thin or slender.
The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.
A spider.
To fill up with alluvial earth.
The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth.
Witness; testimony; attestation.
a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature.
The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.
Of the nature of attestation.
Attesting; furnishing evidence.
One who attests.
A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence: A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
Attic.
A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.
To side with the Athenians.
Touching; bordering; contiguous.
To touch lightly.
Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Provided with antlers, as a stag.
Attire; adornment.
One who attires.
The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
Relating to attitude.
One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.
A practicing of attitudes; posture making.
To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.
One who practices attitudes.
Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.
Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle.
At once; together.
See At one.
To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.
To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required.
The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.
The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.
Attraction.
The quality or fact of being attractable.
Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction.
One who, or that which, attracts.
Having power to attract.
That attracts.
An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
The quality or degree of attractive power.
One who, or that which, attracts.
That which attracts, as a magnet.
To adorn with trapping; to array.
Frequent handling or touching.
Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.
That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.
In an attributive manner.
Rubbed; worn by friction.
The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
of or pertaining to attrition (definition 4).
Matter pulverized by attrition.
Poisonous; malignant; malicious.
In twain; asunder.
Between.
Twisted; distorted; awry.
To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.
Betwixt.
In two; in twain; asunder.
That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
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