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To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

ve law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Fleming.

A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

rve. This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof. Shak.

c., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

ure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]

A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

ect upon its first promulgation. Hooker. Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton.

The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and…

ter the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

Planking to support a roof or wall.