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which Briir. calls the pinnated groiis of the Ardic Zoology, 

 and te!r.T> cupido of Gmtlin. 



ATTIRE, ill Bot.my, is ufed by fome to denots the 

 third pnrt or divifion of the flower of a plant ; tlie other two 

 beintr the tinpa'.erticmcnt and \\\e foliation. 



Tlie attire is of two kinds, femiform and fofid. — Tlie 

 fcmiforni altire confills of two pjrts; chives or llaraina, and 

 fumniits or apices, one upon each llamen. 



The florid attire is uf'.ially called the thrums, as in the 

 flowers of marygold, tanfy, &;c. Thofe thrums are called 

 fuits, which coniill of two, but mod tiincs of three pieces. 

 And the outer part of the fuit is the floret, whofe body is 

 divided at the top like a cowflip flower, into live parts, or 

 diftinft leaves. 



Attire, in Heraldry, fignifies a fmglc horn of a flag. 



Attire, in Hunti:ig, denotes the head or horns of a 

 « deer. The attire of a Hag, if perfeft, conlilts of bur, pearls, 

 beam, gutters, antler, i'ur-antler, royal, fur-royal, and 

 croches : of a buck, of the bur, beam, brow-antler, ad- 

 vancer, palm, and fpellers. 



ATTIRED, in Heraldry, a term ufed in fpeaking of the 

 horns of a flag, hart, or buck. 



ATTIRES, ai'e both the horns of a ftag, hart, or 

 buck. 



ATTITUDE, in Painting and Sculpture, the pofture or 

 pe.lure of a figure or ftatue ; or fueh a difpofition of their 

 parts, as feems^o exprefs the adion and the fentiments of 

 the perfon reprefente'd. See Mechanic.1l Motion of the 

 Human Figure, and Ccmpofitloii, and Contrafl, under the 

 article Sculpture. 



ATTIUM, in Jncient Geography, a promontory on the 

 wellern coall of the illand of Corfica; now called Punta dl 

 Acciaoh. . 



ATTLEBOROUGH, in Geography, a townfhip of 

 ^ America, in Brillol county, Malfachufetts, eighty-two 

 miles fouth from Bofton, and nine north from Providence. 



ATTLEBURGH, a town of England, in Norfolk, 

 diftant N.N.E. from London ninetv-four miles. 



ATTMELLA. See Acmella. 



ATTNANG, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 archduchy of Auftria, one mile W.S.W. of Schwannalladt. 



ATTOCK, a city and fortrefs of Hindollan, on the 

 caftern bank of the Indus, built by Acbar, in 158 1, to 

 command the pafs that leads from Cabul to Lahore. This 

 pafs is fo confined, either by the nature of the banks, or of 

 the channel of the river, or both, that the pafl'age from the 

 landing place leads through the very fortrefs itfelf. The an- 

 cient Taxila, where Alexander crofled the Indus, flood on or 

 near to the fice of Attock. N. lat. 33^ 6'. E. long. 71° 15'. 

 That part of the river Indus, called alfo Nilab and Sinde, 

 that feparates the province of Lahore from Paifliawur, is 

 denominated the Attock, probably from the city founded 

 on its banks. At Attock, the river Cabul, after receiving 

 the rivers of Sewad, Bijore, &c. joins the Indus, and very 

 confiderably increafes it. For though the Indus is fome- 

 timcs fordable above Attock, and Mr. Forfter aftually 

 forded it at twenty miles above this place, July loth, 1783 ; 

 we never hear of its having been forded below that point. 

 " From Attock downwards to Moultan, or to the conflux 

 of the Panjab waters, this river (fays Major Rennell) has 

 obtained the name of Attock ;" but fpoken of generally, it 

 is called Sinde. 



ATTOLLENS, compounded of the Latin ad, to, and 

 toUo, I lift, in ylnaiomy, a name common to feveral mufcles, 

 whofe office or aftion is to raife the parts they belong to. 



The attollent mufcles are otherwife called levators and 

 tlevaiort. 



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Attollsns Mif-uks Aurem, is a thin l)ro?.d mufcle con- 

 nected at its upper part to the tendon of the fruiito-occipi- 

 talis, and at the lower to the pinna of the ear oppofite to 

 the antihelix. Its ufe is to draw the external ear upward?, 

 and to render it tenfe. This mufcle is calledy;//«7'or aiiris 

 by Winflow. 



ATTOMBISSEUR, in Ornithology, a term by which 

 the French falconers difliuguilh thofe falcons which will 

 attack the heron in its flight ; fuch a bird they call un Ion 

 atlonihif[cttr. 



ATTORE, in Geography, a town of Hindoftan, in the 

 Myforc country, fiftv-four miles north of Tritchinopoly, and 

 twenty-nine N. N. W. of Rajanagur. 



ATTORNARE, in the original fenfe, figuified to turn 

 over money and goods, that is, to aflTign and appropriate 

 them to certain perfons, or ufe. This is properly called 

 atlornare rem. Attornare pcrfanam denotes to depute a re- 

 prefentative, or proxy, to appear and aft for another. 



ATl'ORNATO ficicndo vel recipiendo, in the Common 

 La-M, a writ to command a flieriff, or llewarj, of a county- 

 court, or hundred-court, to receive and admit an attorney to 

 appear for the perfon that oweth fuit of court. F. N. B. 

 156. Every perfon that owes fuit to the couuty-court» 

 court-baron, &c. may make an attorney to do his fuit. Stat- 

 20 H. III. c. 10. 



ATTORNEY, Attornatus, in Law, a perfon ap- 

 pointed by another to do fomething in his fl;ead, particu- 

 larly to folicit and carry on a law-fuit. 



The word is compounded of the Latin ad, to, and the 

 French toumer, to turn, q. d. to turn a lufinefs over to another. 

 The ancient Latin name, according to Bradton, is refpon- 

 falls. 



An attorney is either public, in the courts of records, 

 the king's bench, common pleas, &c. and made by warrant 

 from his client ; or private, upon occafion for any parti- 

 cular bufincfs, who is commonly made by letter of at- 

 torney. 



Attorneys, in Common Law, are much the fame with 

 procurators, proctors, or fyndics, in the C'(Ti//and Canon Law, 

 Attorneys are properly thole who fue out writs or pro- 

 cefs, or commence, carry on, and defend aftions, or other 

 proceedings, in the names of other perfons, in any of the 

 courts of common law.— They are dillinguifhed from folicl- 

 tors, who do the like bufinefs in courts of equity ; as the 

 chancery, equity-court in the exchequer, chamber-court oi 

 the duchy, or the like. 



Formerly every fuitor was obhged to appear in perfon to 

 profecute or defend his fuit, according to the old Gothic 

 conllitution, unlefs by fpecial licence under the king's let- 

 ters patent. F. N. B. 25. This is fliU the law in criminal 

 cafes. Nor can an ideot appear to this day by attorney, 

 but in perfon ; becaufe he is fuppofed not to have fufficient 

 diferetion for appointing a proper fubllitute ; and upon his 

 being brought before the court in fo defencelefs a condition, 

 the judges are bound to take care of his intereils, and they 

 fhall admit the beft plea in his behalf that any one prefent 

 can fuggeft. But as in the Roman law " cum olim in ufufu- 

 ijfet, alteriui nomine agi non pojfe, fed, quia hoc nan minimam 

 incommoditatem habebat, cxperunt homines per procuratores li- 

 tigare" (Inft. 4. tit. 10.) ; fo with us, upon the fame prin- 

 ciple of convenience, it is now permitted, in general, by 

 divers ancient ftatutes, of which the firfl: is fl;at. Wcftm. 2 

 c. 10. (13 Ed. I. A. D. 12S5.) that attorneys may be made, 

 as if they had letters patent, to profecute or defend any 

 aftion in the abfence of the parties to the fuit. Thefe at- 

 tornies are now formed into a regular corps ; they are ad- 

 mitted to the execution of their office by the fuperior courts 



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