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Dialect :: Dialect (n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned..

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was ?243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180..

Lattice :: Lattice (v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window..

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..

Attic :: Attic (a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

Kage :: Kage (n.) A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.

Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower..

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..

Treillage :: Treillage (n.) Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis..

Trellis :: Trellis (n.) A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants..

Atticize :: Atticize (v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.

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..

Grate :: Grate (n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters..

Salt :: Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt..

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.

Tetralogy :: Tetralogy (n.) A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival..

Brattice :: Brattice (n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.

Grating :: Grating (n.) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats..

Garret :: Garret (n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic..

Latticing :: Latticing (n.) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut..

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