ATTIRE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

2.
n.

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. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire Jer. ii. 32.

3.
n.

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

4.
n.

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.


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