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Fr. _atour_, attire.
_Barbour._
ATOUR, ATTOURE, _prep._
1. Over, S.
_Wallace._
2. Across, S.
_Wallace._
3. Beyond, as to time; exceeding.
_Quon. Att._
4. Exceeding in number.
_Wyntown._
Fr. _a tour_, _en tour_, _au tour_, circ.u.m; or Su. G. _at_, denoting motion towards a place, and _oefwer_, over.
ATOUR, ATTOUR, _adv._
1. Moreover, _By and attour_, id. Laws, S.
_Pitscottie._
2. Out from, or at an indefinite distance from the person speaking, or the object spoken of.
_Douglas._
_To stand attour_, to keep off; _to go attour_, to remove to some distance, S. _By and attour_, _prep_. Besides, over and above, S.
_Spalding._
ATRY, ATTRIE, _adj._
1. Purulent, containing matter; applied to a sore that is cankered, S.
_R. Bruce._
2. Stern, grim, S. B.; _attern_, fierce, cruel, snarling; Gloucest.
V. ~Atir~, ~Eatir~.
_Ross._
Belg. _etterig_, full of matter; _eiter-en_, to suppurate.
ATRYS, _s. pl._ Perhaps from Fr. _atour_, a French hood.
_Watson's Coll._
ATRYST, _s._ Appointment, a.s.signation,
V. ~Tryst~.
_Dunbar._
ATTAMIE, A skeleton, S.
Abbreviated from Fr. _anatomie_.
ATTEILLE, ATTEAL, ATTILE, _s._ Apparently the wigeon; being distinguished from the _teal_.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Isl. _tialld-r_, t.u.r.dus marinus.
ATTELED, _part. pa._ Aimed.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
V. ~Ettle~
ATTEMPTAT, _s._ A wicked or injurious enterprise.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
L. B. _attemptat-io_, nefaria molitio, scelus, Gall. _attentat_; Du Cange.
ATTER-CAP, ATTIR-COP, _s._
1. A spider, S. _Attercop_, _attercob_, id. A. Bor.
_Montgomery._
