At*tire" (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attired (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring.] [OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; a (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziari, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.]
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
Finely attired in a robe of white.
Shak.
With the linen miter shall he be attired.
Lev. xvi. 4.
© Webster 1913.
At*tire", n.
1.
Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Earth in her rich attire.
Milton.
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire.
Shak.
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire?
Jer. ii. 32.
2.
The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3. Bot.
The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
© Webster 1913.