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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.

tion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive eyes." Thackeray. Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies. Lubbock. -- At*tract"ive*ly, adv. -- At*tract"ive*ness, n.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.

ication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church. To number Ave Maries on his beads. Shak.

-- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly f…

nd contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

Subulate. See Subulate. Gray.

e or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." Gray.

ngitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. Gray.

Axle or axletree. [Obs.] Drayton.

See Aerie. Drayton.

Like a babe; a childish; babyish. [R.] "Babish imbecility." Drayton. -- Bab"ish*ly, adv. -- Bab"ish*ness, n. [R.]