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v. i. 1. To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attend to the voice of my supplications. Ps. lxxxvi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man can not at the same time attend to two objects. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was required to attend upon the committee. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To wait; to stay; to delay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For this perfection she must yet attend,
Till to her Maker she espoused be. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Attend, Listen, Hearken. We attend with a view to hear and learn; we listen with fixed attention, in order to hear correctly, or to consider what has been said; we hearken when we listen with a willing mind, and in reference to obeying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See Attend, v. t. ] 1. Attention; regard; careful application. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Waiting for; expectation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. [ 1913 Webster ]

If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. attendant, p. pr. of attendre. See Attend, v. t. ] 1. Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils. [ 1913 Webster ]

The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attendant keys (Mus.), the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor. “A train of attendants.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which accompanies; a concomitant. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ A ] sense of fame, the attendant of noble spirits. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intent. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, attends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. atendement. ] An attendant circumstance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. attentus, p. p. of attendere. See Attend, v. t. ] Attentive; heedful. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer. 2 Chron. vi. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attention; heed. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. attentatum, pl. attentata, fr. attentare to attempt: cf. F. attentat criminal attempt. See Attempt. ] 1. An attempt; an assault. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed. (b) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. attentio: cf. F. attention. ] 1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending. [ 1913 Webster ]

They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Attention is consciousness and something more. It is consciousness voluntarily applied, under its law of limitations, to some determinate object; it is consciousness concentrated. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of civility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pay attention to,
To pay one's attentions to, to be courteous or attentive to; to wait upon as a lover; to court. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Care; heed; study; consideration; application; advertence; respect; regard. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to attention. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. seizing the attention attention-getting demonstration
Syn. -- eye-catching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 likely to attract interest.
Syn. -- catchy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. attentif. ] 1. Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Attentive is applied to the senses of hearing and seeing, as, an attentive ear or eye; to the application of the mind, as in contemplation; or to the application of the mind, in every possible sense, as when a person is attentive to the words, and to the manner and matter, of a speaker at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Heedful of the comfort of others; courteous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Heedful; intent; observant; mindful; regardful; circumspect; watchful. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- At*ten"tive*ly, adv. -- At*ten"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the quality of paying careful attention; attentiveness to detail.
Syn. -- heed, regard, paying attention. [ PJC ]

2. paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
Syn. -- heed, regard, paying attention. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Attentively. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. attenuans, p. pr. of attenuare: cf. F. atténuant. See Attenuate. ] Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. -- n. (Med.) A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attenuated p. pr. & vb. n. Attenuating ] [ L. attenuatus, p. p. of attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See Thin. ] 1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. [ 1913 Webster ]

The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. attenuatus, p. p. ] 1. Made thin or slender. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. attenuatio: cf. F. atténuation. ] 1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Battened p. pr. & vb. n. Battening. ] [ See Batful. ] 1. To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. “Battening our flocks.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fertilize or enrich, as land. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bâton stick, staff. See Baton. ] A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish or fasten with battens. [ 1913 Webster ]

To batten down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. battant. See Batter, v. t. ] The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fattened p. pr. & vb. n. Fattening ] [ See Fat, v. t. ] 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. [ 1913 Webster ]

And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. fed until grown and ready for slaughter or for sale in the market; -- of market animals. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Flattened p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening. ] [ From Flat, a. ] 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. --
Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. shaped like a thin sheet.
Syn. -- planate. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. (Biol) flattened laterally along the whole length e.g. certain leafstalks or flatfishes.
Syn. -- compressed, flat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ Cf. Prov. E. gatter bush. ] (Bot.) A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + attention: cf. F. inattention. ] Lack of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Novel lays attract our ravished ears;
But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

Syn. -- Inadvertence; heedlessness; negligence; carelessness; disregard; remissness; thoughtlessness; neglect. -- Inattention, Inadvertence. We miss seeing a thing through inadvertence when do not happen to look at it; through inattention when we give no heed to it, though directly before us. The latter is therefore the worse. Inadvertence may be an involuntary accident; inattention is culpable neglect. A versatile mind is often inadvertent; a careless or stupid one is inattentive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. inattentif. ] Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.

-- In`at*ten"tive*ly, adv. -- In`at*ten"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. latoun, laton, OF. laton, F. laiton, prob. fr. OF. late lath, F. latte; -- because made in thin plates; cf. It. latta a sheet of tinned iron, tin plate. F. latte is of German origin. See Lath a thin board. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had a cross of latoun full of stones. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black latten, brass in milled sheets, composed of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire. --
Roll latten, latten polished on both sides ready for use. --
Shaven latten, a thinner kind than black latten. --
White latten, a mixture of brass and tin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To misunderstand; to disregard. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inattention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. patin a high-heeled shoe, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. Panton, Patté. ] 1. A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud. [ 1913 Webster ]

The patten now supports each frugal dame. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stilt. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing pattens. “Some pattened girl.” Jane Austen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Plat, a. ] (Glass Making) To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Prov. E. ratten a rat, hence the verb literally means, to do mischief like a rat. ] To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [ Trades-union Cant ] J. McCarthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inattentive; careless. [ 1913 Webster ]

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