Definition of attic

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Attic (a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined..

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Lattice :: Lattice (n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework..
Latticework :: Latticework (n.) Same as Lattice, n., 1..
Atticize :: Atticize (v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.
Latticing :: Latticing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lattic.
Procrustes :: Procrustes (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes..
Brattishing :: Brattishing (n.) See Brattice, n..
Stateroom :: Stater (n.) The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater..
Lattice :: Lattice (n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal..
Heck :: Heck (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window..
Kage :: Kage (n.) A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.
Attic :: Attic (a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework..
Grille :: Grille (v. t.) A lattice or grating.
Atticism :: Atticism (n.) The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression..
Amphidromical :: Amphidromical (a.) Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
Atticize :: Atticize (v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica..
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude..
Grating :: Grating (n.) A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent..
Latterkin :: Latterkin (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
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