Definition of attic

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Attic (a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.

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Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower..
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..
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..
Lattice :: Lattice (n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Clathrate :: Clathrate (a.) Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells..
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..
Tabernacular :: Tabernacular (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed.
Garret :: Garret (n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic..
Atticism :: Atticism (n.) The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression..
Brettice :: Brettice (n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.
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..
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..
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..
Cancellate :: Cancellate (v. t.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike..
Heck :: Heck (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
Perculaced :: Perculaced (a.) Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2..
Heck :: Heck (n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door..
Latticework :: Latticework (n.) Same as Lattice, n., 1..
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