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

Latticing :: Latticing (n.) The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to..

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..

Attic :: 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..

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..

Atticize :: Atticize (v. i.) To side with the Athenians.

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude..

Hellenic :: Hellenic (n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander..

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

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework..

Latterkin :: Latterkin (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.

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..

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

Brettice :: Brettice (n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

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.

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

Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..

Atticize :: Atticize (v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica..

Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

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..

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