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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ATTI'RE, v.t.
To dress; to array; to adorn with elegant or splendid garments.
With the linen miter shall Aaron be attired. Leviticus 16.
ATTI'RE, n.
1. Dress; clothes; habit; but appropriately, ornamental dress.
Can a bride forget her attire. Jeremiah 2.
2. The horns of a deer.
3. In botany, the generative parts of plants. florid attire, called thrums or suits, as in the flowers of marygold or tansy, consists of two or three parts, of which the outer part is the floret. semiform attire consists of the chives and apexes. This language is now obsolete.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: attire, garb, dress] v
1: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out] [ant: dress down, underdress]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (attired; attiring) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French atirer to equip, prepare, attire, from a- (from Latin ad-) + tire order, rank, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English t?r glory, ornament Date: 14th century to put garments on ; dress, array; especially to clothe in fancy or rich garments II. noun Date: 14th century 1. dress, clothes; especially splendid or decorative clothing 2. the antlers or antlers and scalp of a stag or buck

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. formal --v.tr. dress, esp. in fine clothes or formal wear. --n. clothes, esp. fine or formal. Etymology: ME f. OF atir(i)er equip f. à tire in order, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Attire 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's 1913 Dictionary

Attire 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. ziar[=i], 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Your attire is the clothes you are wearing. (FORMAL) ...seven women dressed in their finest attire. N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N, with poss

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Dress, clothe, array, apparel, rig, robe, enrobe, accoutre, equip, fit out, trick out. See apparel, v. II. n. Dress, clothes, clothing, apparel, raiment, habit, garb, gear, costume, habiliment, vesture, vestment, outfit, suit, accoutrement, equipment, toilet, rigging, trappings, wardrobe. See apparel, n.

Moby Thesaurus

accouter, apparel, appoint, arm, array, bedeck, bedizenment, bedrape, bundle up, clad, clothe, clothes, clothing, costume, deck, dight, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, dud, duds, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equip, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habilitate, habit, invest, investiture, investment, lap, linen, muffle up, outfit, rag out, rags, raiment, robe, robes, sheathe, shroud, sportswear, style, swaddle, swathe, things, threads, tire, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel, wrap, wrap up