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Attire
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. Milton. I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire Jer. ii. 32.
2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3. The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.