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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.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement. Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. South.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.…

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

Anything; any part. [Also written ought.] There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

The thing added by way of enlargement.

One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.

s; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." Shak. "Auspicious gales." Pope.

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton.

od, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.

Having an inherent power of action or motion. Nothing can be said to be automatic. Sir H. Davy.

Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Huxley. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.