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Attorn: Definition and part of speech

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Attorn

  1. v. t. To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.
  2. v. t. To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Attenuant: Definition and part of speech

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Attenuant

  1. n. A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.
  2. a. Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Attenuate: Definition and part of speech

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Attenuate

  1. a. Alt. of Attenuated
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. 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.
  4. v. t. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.
  5. v. i. To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Attenuation: Definition and part of speech

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Attenuation

  1. n. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
  2. n. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
  3. n. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.