attagen 
370 
etc.] 1. Properly, the common partridge of attainableness (a-ta'na-bl-nes), . 
Europe, now known as Pcrdix cincrea. 2. A ity of being attainable, 
name given to various other European birds, attainder (a-tan'der), n. 
(a) Used indiscriminately by early writers for sundry gal- 
linaceous birds of Europe, as grouse, ptarmigan, par- 
tridges, franeolins, Plerudcs ah-itata, etc. (b) Used by 
Moehring, 1752, for the frigate-bird or man-of-war bird, 
Tachyjietes aquila, and adopted byO. K. Gray, 1871, in the 
spelling Atagen, as the generic name of these birds : 
whence Ata'Kiuiue (Gray) as a subfamily name, (c) [cap.] 
[NL.] Made by Brisson in 1760 an indeterminable genus 
of grouse, including, besides European species, two North 
American birds called Attagen aitiericana and Attagen 
pensilvanire. (d) Applied by Cuvier (1817) to the sand- 
grouse of the genus Syrrhaptes (Illiger, 1811), the only 
species of which known to Cuvier was Pallas's sand-grouse, 
5. paradoxua, a bird of the suborder Pterocletes. (e) Ap- 
plied by Gloger in 1842 to the franeolins, of which Perdix 
francolinux (Linmcus), now Francolinus vulgaris, of Eu- 
rope, etc., is the type. 
Also fttagen, attagas, atagas. 
Attageninae (at*a-je-ni'ne), n.pl. [NL.,<Atta- 
gen, 2 (b), -t- -ince. Atatjenlna; is the form used 
by Gray.] In G. R. Gray's system of classifica- 
tion (1871), a subfamily of totipalmate birds, 
named from Moehring's genus Attagen (1752), 
equivalent to the family I'achypetida of authors 
in general; the frigate-birds or man-of-war 
birds. See Tachypetidce. 
attaghant, . Same as yutaglian. 
_ , ... [< late ME. attayn- 
dere, < OF. ataindre, ateindre, attain, touch 
upon, affect, accuse, attack, attaint, convict; 
the inf. used as a noun. The idea of taint, 
stain, or corruption has been erroneously con- 
nected with this word : see attaint.] 1. The act 
of attainting, or the state of being attainted ; 
the legal consequence of judgment of death or 
outlawry pronounced in respect of treason or 
felony: as, a bill of attainder; to remove an 
attainder. The consequence by the common law in- 
cluded forfeiture of lands, tenements, and heredita- 
ments, incapability of suing in a court of justice, or of 
performing any of the duties or enjoying any of the priv- 
ileges of a free citizen, and "corruption of blood," render- 
attask 
The qual- instituted for reversing a false verdict given by 
a jury ; conviction of a jury for giving such a 
verdict. 4. In old law: (a) A conviction,. (6) 
Impeachment. 5f. Infection; injurious or del- 
eterious action. 
The marrow-eating sickness, whose attaint 
Disorder breeds. Shale., V. and A., L 741. 
6. Attainder. 
It was a point of honour with his [Bismarck's) Govern- 
ment that the captive royalists should at every cost al- 
most he set free, without attaint of life or fortune. 
Lowe, Bismarck, I. 220. 
7t. A stain, spot, or taint; hence, a disgrace; 
an imputation involving dishonor. 
What simple thief brags of his own attaint I 
Shak., C. of E., iii. 2. 
ing' the person affected incapable'of inheriting 'property attaintmentt (a-tanf ment), n. [< attaint + 
or transmitting it to heirs. . men f-] The a(ft m gt&i ~ J^ L attainted or 
An act of attainder was carried against him, as one who "" 
had been indicted for piracy and murder, and had fled 
from justice. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 188. 
2. A bringing under some disgrace, stain, or 
imputation ; the state of being in dishonor. 
affected with attainder; conviction; arrest; 
impeachment. 
When this man was attainted there, and they had lib- 
erty to say nay to his attaintment if they would, sure I am 
the most allowed it, and else it would not have gone for- 
ward. Latlmer, quoted in Dixon's Hist. Church of Eng., xv. 
attainturet (a-tan'tur), n. 
1. Same as attaintment. 
[< attaint + -ure.~\ 
So to the laws at large I write my name : 
And he that breaks them in the least degree 
Stands in attainder of eternal shame. 
,, - - , Shot., L. L. L., i. 1. 
attain (a-tan'), v. [< ME. attainen, atteinen, attaindryt, . An obsolete form of attainder. 
atdincn, titeinen, etc., < OF. ataindre, ateindre attainduret, . [A mixture of attainder and 
(ataign-, ateign-), F. atteindre = Pr. ateigner, attainture.'] An obsolete form of attainder. 
atenher = It. attignere, attingere, attain, < L. at- attainment (a-tan'ment), n. [<attain + -ment.'] 
tingcre, touch upon, attain, < ad, to, + tangere, 1 . The act oil attaining ; the act of arriving at 
touch: see tangent. Cf. attainder and attain (.] or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion attaket, v. t. See atake. 
I. trans. If. To touch; strike; hit. 2f. To or effort. attal (af al), . Same as attlei. 
* u j..- a. m. The attatnMf of every desired object. Attalea (a-ta'le-a), n. [NL., named with allu- 
Sir W. Jones, Hitdpadesa. sion to the beauty of the trees, < L. Attalus, < 
2. That which is attained, or obtained by ex- Gr- 'Aira/tof, Attalus, the name of three kings of 
ertion; acquisition; acquirement. Pergamum; Attalus I. and II. were noted for 
Her attainture will be Humphrey's fall 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. -2. 
2. Imputation; stain. 
Without the least attainture of your valour. 
Chapman, Byron's Tragedy, iii. 1. 
touch upon; mention. 3f. To conviot; con- 
demn. Compare attaint, v., 3-5. 4. To come 
so near as to touch; reach, achieve, or accom- 
plish (an end or object) by continued effort; 
come into possession of ; acquire; gain. 
Ends we seek we never shall attain. 
M. Arnold, Self -Deception. 
5. To come to or arrive at (a place) ; reach (a 
place, time, or state). 
Canaan he now attain*. Milton, P. L., xii. 135. 
He has scarce attained the age of thirty. 
Goldsmith, Vicar, iii. 
6. To reach in excellence or degree ; equal. 
So the first precedent, if it be good, is seldom attained 
by imitation. Bacon 
Formerly the natural impulse of every man was, spon- 
taneously to use the language of life ; the language of 
books was a secondary attainment not made without 
effort. De Quincey, Style, i. 
Smatterers, whose attainments just suffice to elevate 
them from the insignificance of dunces to the dignity of 
bores. Macaulay, Mill on Government. 
= Syn. 2. Acquirements, Acquisitions, etc. See acquire- 
ment. 
attainort, . [< attain + -or, after AF. attei- 
their wealth and liberality.] A genus of palms, 
allied to the cocpanut, natives of tropical 
America, and distinguished by the fact that 
the nut contains three cells, each inclosing a 
single seed. There are about 20 species. The nuts, 
which hang in great clusters, are egg-shaped, with a very 
hard and thick pericarp inclosing the edible oily kernels. 
The pinnate leaves are very large, and are often used for 
thatching and other purposes. The fibers of the leaf- 
stalks of A. funifera are made into ropes and brooms. 
One of the jurors in the process'called ? h t ***&* ar , e mits . called coquilla-nuts ; they are 3 or 4 
> *** inp.npR Inntr hrnwrt in /Tkl/ii* liawl an/1 nf c.n*fW.; n .,t 4i,; A i, 
attaint (which see). 
7t. To overtake; come up with: as, "not at- attaint (a-tanf), v. t. [< ME. ataynten, ateyn- cohune r. 
taining him in time," Bacon. 8f. To come to ten > attonten, etc., an inf. due to ataynt, attetnt, kOayte 
. -n-n nf .,:.....,, ^4- .x **-,-,_ /~"Ei ,*._.* _.a _._.. aT.T.Q MAS 
know; experience. Chaucer. =Syn. 4. Attain, Ob- 
tain, Procure, reach, achieve, get possession of, carry. 
(See lists under acquire and accomplish ; also note under 
attainable.) Attain involves the idea of considerable ef- 
inches long, brown in color, hard, and of sufficient thick- 
ness to be turned into door-handles, small cups, etc. The 
palm, A. Cohune, is the largest palm that is found 
mala and Honduras. 
pp. of ataynen, etc., afterOF.otet,pp. of atein- attalica (a-tal'i-ka), n. pi. [L., neut. pi. of 
(Ire: see attain and attainder. Later errone- Attalicus,< Attalus, < Gr. %rra/lof.] Cloth of 
ously associated with taint, stain, corruption, 
to which some of the senses are due.] fj-. To 
gold : a name derived from its supposed intro- 
duction under King Attalus of Pergamum. 
of obtain or procure. 
The Khans, or story-tellers in Ispahan, attain a control- 
ling power over their audience, keeping them for man 
I dare undertake, that at this day there are more at- 
taynted landes, concealed from her Majestic, then she 
ung power over ineir audience, keeping them for many hath now possessions in all Ireland. 
hours attentive to the most fancifuljnd extravagant ad- Spenser, Present State of Ireland. 
ventures. Emerson, Eloquence. 
Some pray for riches ; riches they obtain ; 
But, watch'd by robbers, for their wealth are slain. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., 1. 424. 
Have you a catalogue 
Of all the voices that we have procur'd, 
Set down by the poll? Shak., Cor., iii. 3. 
II. intrans. 1. To reach; come or arrive by 
motion, bodily or mental exertion, or efforts of 
any kind: followed by to or unto. 
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me ; it is high ; I 
can not attaiit,unto it. P 8 . cxxxix. 6. 
2f. To pertain ; have relation. Chaucer. 
attaint (a-tan'), n. [< attain, .] Something 
attained. Glanville. 
attainability (a-ta-na-bil'i-ti), n. [< attmita- 
ble: see -bility.] Attainableness. Coleridge. 
attainable (a-ta'na-bl), a. [< attain + -able.] 
Capable of being attained. 
He [Plato] quits the normal for the attainable. 
All that is said of the wise man by Stoic, or oriental o 
modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, 
his unattained but attainable self. Emerson, History. 
"[Attainable was formerly sometimes used where obtainable 
or procurable would now be preferred, as in the follow- 
.. . ^ der pp. 
taint, v. ] 1. Attainted; convicted. 2. Taint- 
ed; corrupted; infected; attacked. 
My tender youth was never yet attaint 
With any passion. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 5. 
Auterfoits attaint. See auterfoits. 
The kind and quality of food and liquor, the species of attaint (a-tanf). w. [X attaint, v.~\ It The 
^ffs^ss^tssasStAssx Es*te^ t ***&' 
with ease and certainty. Paley. "*&' a hlt> [Archaic.] 
General Howe would not permit them [clothes and " v ou, reverend sir," said the knight, " have in the en- 
blankets] to be purchased in Philadelphia and they were cou "tr of our wits made a fair attaint." 
not attainable in the country. Scott, Monastery, I. xvi. 
Marshall, Life of Washington. ] 2. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse caused 
=Syn. Practicable, feasible, possible, within reach. by overreaching. 3. An ancient legal process 
see contaminate.'] 1. To broach or open (a 
cask, etc.). Chaucer. 2. To begin; venture 
upon; undertake. 
Ryght anon his tale he hath attained. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 52. 
[< L. attami- 
natus, pp. of attaminare, contaminate: see at- 
tame*.) To contaminate. Blount. 
5f. To accuse: with of: as, to attaint a person attap (af ap), n. [Native name; also written 
of sorcery. atap and adap.~\ The Stipa fruticans, a nearly 
He was attainted . . . u/high treason. stemless palm of the tidal forests of the East 
Goldsmith, Bolingbroke. Indian archipelago. Its smooth pinnate leaves are 
6f. To affect with any passion or emotion. 
This noble woman . . . attainted with extreme sorrow. 
Hiatoria Anglica (trans.). 
7. To taint; disgrace; cloud with infamy; 
stain ; corrupt. attaquet, v. and n. A former spelling of attack. 
Lest she with blame her honour should attaint. attar (afar), . [Also written atar, ottar, and 
otto; < P'ers. 'atar, Hind, atr, < Ar. 'itr, fra- 
grance, perfume, esp. of roses (Pers. 'atar-gul, 
attar of roses), < 'atara, smell sweet.] In the 
East Indies, a general term for a perfume 
from flowers. In Europe it generally denotes only 
the attar or otto of roseg, an essential oil made in Turkey 
and various other eastern countries, chiefly from the 
damask rose, Rosa Damatcena. The yield is very small. 
150 pounds of rose-leaves yielding less than an ounce of 
attar. The principal source of the attar of commerce is 
in the vicinity of Kazanlik, on the southern side of the 
Balkan mountains, hi Eastern Rumelia. The pure oil 
solidifies at a temperature between 60 and 65 F. It is a 
well-known perfume, but the odor is agreeable only when 
diffused, being too powerful when it is concentrated. It 
is largely used in the scenting of snuff. Also written ot- 
tar, otto. 
attaskt(a-task'), v. t. [< at- + tesfc.] To task; 
tax; reprove; blame. 
You are much more attaskd for want of wisdom, 
Than prais'd for harmful mildness. Shak., Lear, i. 4. 
I must offend before I be attainted. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 
No attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, attammatet, (a-tam 1-nat), V. t. 
or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. 
Constitution of U. S., iii. 3. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 5. 
That the pleasure is of an inferior order, can no more 
attaint the idea or model of the composition, than it can 
impeach the excellence of an epigram that it is not a 
tr gedy. De Quincey, Rhetoric. 
from 15 to 30 feet long, very thick and strong, and are ex- 
tensively used for thatching. 
The roof is thatched with the common Buttam attaps 
in the same way as Malay houses. 
Jour. Anthrop. Inst., XV. 293. 
^ Q !!"!!f.'_"* to : attaintt_ (a-tanf ), j,. a. [The older pp. of at- 
