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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.

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

Attendant spirit; genius; demon. Shak.

ntiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

ods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

An attendant; one who is present. Dryden.

The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.

The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. [Obs.]

An attendant circumstance. [Obs.] The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.

ting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.]

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

g; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead b…

An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.