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▪ I. † aˈtour, n. Obs.
Forms: 3 aturn, 4–5 atour(e, -owr(e, attour.
[a. OF. aturn, -ourn, -ur, -our (mod. atour), vbl. n. f. atourner: see aturn.]
1. Attire, array, dress.
c1220Hali Meid. 23 For þi is hare aturn se briht. c1300K. Alis. 6834 Ne saughe he never so faire atoure. c1400Rom. Rose 3717 Nor of robe, nor of tresour..neithir of hir riche attour. 1475Caxton Jason 115 b, That poure creature habylled with ryall atours.
2. Military equipment or preparation.
1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 717 The schipmen..pressit with that gret atour Toward the wall. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. v, For t' avenge it, he made redy alle his atowr.
▪ II. atour, prep. and adv. Sc.|əˈtʌʊr|
Forms: 4 a-toure, at-oure, 4–5 atoure, 6 attoure, attouir, 9 atower, 4– attour, atour.
[Only Scotch, exc. in the quotations from Alisaunder and Sir Beves. App. f. at prep. + our, ower, Sc. form of over. In Barbour's Bruce outour is used in the same sense, as if at- were corrupted from out. In his Saints' Lives it rimes many times with fower, ‘four,’ never with Fr. ou in hour, honour; nor does the sense suit Fr. autour, or OF. entour, around, about.]
A. prep.
1. Of position: Over.
1375Barbour Bruce xiii. 353 Bannokburne, that sa cummyrsum was..mycht nane atour it ryde. 1423James I King's Q. iii. viii, Thaire hudis all..atoure thair eyen hang. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iv. xix. 64 Atoure the Peychtys kyng regnand. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 9 To fair attour the flude. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 149 Loupin atower the sopha. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 85 The sunshine creeps atour the crags.
2. Of degree, quantity, or number: Over, more than, beyond.
1375Barbour Bruce ii. 368 And he hym-selff, atour the lave, Sa hard and hewy dyntis gave. Ibid. xx. 434 Nocht..atour ten. c1475R. Coilyear, Ane man he traistit in, maist atour all vther thing. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 139 Attour the space of ane zeare, and ane day.
b. by and atour: over and above, in addition to.
c1600in Orig. Paroch. Scot. (1851) I. 517 Three chalders of victual..by and attour the ministeris stipend. 1824Scott Redgauntlet xii, By and attour her gentle havings.
3. Over an obstacle, restriction, prohibition: In defiance of, in spite of.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 12 How the Pechtis crownit ane King attouir forbidding. Mod. Sc. (Jamieson) I'll do this attour ye.
†4. ? Over against.
c1375? Barbour St. Adrian 380 Furth come campyonis foure, & al stud Adryane atoure.
B. adv.
1. Over and above, moreover, in addition, besides.
c1320Sir Beves 2137 Atour, a seide, in is contre Icham a erl and also is he. c1375? Barbour St. Marcus Prol. 1 Ȝete suld I here a-toure Spek of þe ewangelistis foure. 1558Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Misc. Wodr. Soc. (1844) 108 Attouir, it is to be notit. 1663in Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 42 Attour, they are of intolerable greediness.
b. In same sense, the phrases by atour, by and atour, more atour (mairatour).
c1300K. Alis. 4511 Ded buth my prynces be atour. a1500Lancelot 1775 And mor atour he shall Have O thing. 1725A. Ramsay Gent. Sheph. (1844) 31 By an attour..twa quey cawfs, I'll yearly to them give. 1794Burns Wks. 137 Bye attour, my gutcher has A hich house and a laigh ane.
2. ? All over, everywhere.
a1475R. Coilyear 469 His plaitis properlie picht attour with precious stanis. 1513Douglas æneis vii. vi. 68 Quhy suld I dred or spayr To purches help..attour allquhair? |