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Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants.

The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.

of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine.

mic philosophy, or Doctrine of atoms, a system which assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the…

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery. Incapable of attaching a sensible man. Miss Austen. God . . . by various ties attaches man to man. Cowper.…

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [Archaic]

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.

To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.

Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.

The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.