Definition of attic

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

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Attic :: Attic (a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.
Atticize :: Atticize (v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica..
Latticing :: Latticing (n.) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut..
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.
Mina :: Mina (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas..
Grille :: Grille (v. t.) A lattice or grating.
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..
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude..
Perculaced :: Perculaced (a.) Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.
Almagra :: Almagra (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework..
Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower..
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..
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