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The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.

Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

e for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

nswer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl m…

Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

Capable of being attacked.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

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 highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.

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. Abbott.

Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.

The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding.

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.

Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

The state of being worn. Johnson.

bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spad…