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A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross.

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.]

is royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and "Roman Doric" orders, and imitated by the architects of the Renaissance. -- Attic faith, inviolable faith. -- Attic purity, special purity of language. -- Attic salt, Attic wit, a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians. -- Attic story. See Attic, n. -- Attic…

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.

placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

eman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

The white-headed eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.

Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.

A white-headed variety of pigeon.

style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. White.

In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

ilk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.