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An attempt; an assault. [Obs.] Bacon.

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. They say the tongues of dying men En…

Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.

Attentively. [Obs.] Barrow.

Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. -- n. (Med.)

less complex; to weaken. To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

Made thin or slender.

The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.

Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore. [Obs.] Holland.

A spider. [Obs.]

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

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.

One who attests.

Attesting; furnishing evidence.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.