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A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

A kind of chætopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

Relating to atrophy.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

Same as Atropine.

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

Not inverted; orthotropous.

Coal-black; very black.

A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

See Atabal.

Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden.