Index of English words, starting with "at"

(1) - Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.
(2) - Attaint (v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
(3) - Attaint (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.
(4) - Attaint (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
(5) - Attaint (v.) A touch or hit.
(6) - Attaint (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.
(7) - Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
(8) - Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
(9) - Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
(10) - Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
(11) - Attaint (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
(12) - Attaint (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.

(1) - Attar (n.) A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

(1) - Attemper (v. t.) To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.
(2) - Attemper (v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.
(3) - Attemper (v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.
(4) - Attemper (v. t.) To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.

(1) - Attemperment (n.) Attemperament.

(1) - Attempt (n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.
(2) - Attempt (v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.
(3) - Attempt (v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.
(4) - Attempt (v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.
(5) - Attempt (v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
(6) - Attempt (v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.