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chine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.

To come or arrive, by an effort of mind. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it. Ps. cxxxix. 6.

Obtainable. [Obs.] General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.

l be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.

To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman. Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute. Shak.

o regard. [Obs.] The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.

A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

Rubbed; worn by friction. Milton.

The state of being worn. Johnson.

ernment, for conference or the transaction of business. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. Shak.

A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.

An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.

iar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

dent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.

anction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.

Self-worship. Farrar.

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."