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To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. Arts . . . attempered to the lyre. Pope.

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.

One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.

To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.

The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.

To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.

The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

ying 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 spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with…

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account. Yet I can make my audit up. Shak.

To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.

To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.

Capable of self-nourishment; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

To promote; to assist. [Obs.] Pope. To avail one's self of, to make use of; take advantage of. Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names. Milton. I have availed myself of the very first opportunity. Dickens.