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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..

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

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

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

Lattice :: Lattice (v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers..

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

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..

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.

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

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

Drachma :: Drachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents..

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

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

Brattishing :: Brattishing (n.) See Brattice, n..

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..

Heck :: Heck (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

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

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

Latticed :: Latticed (imp. & p. p.) of Lattic.

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

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