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One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

One who practices attitudes.

See At one. [Obs.]

To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

ion, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

One who, or that which, attracts.

One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne

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.

ourt (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mozley & W. -- In general (or open) audience, publicly. -- To give audience, to listen; to admit to an interview.

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

One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.

t. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

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

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

One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.