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▪ I. † ˈatter, n. Obs. or dial.
Forms: 1 átr, átor, attor, ættor, 1–6 ater, 1–9 atter; also 3 atterr, 4 attere, 4–5 attur, hoter, 5 hatter, 5–6 attir, 5–7 attyr, 6 atir, etter.
[Common Teut.: with OE. átr, átor, attor, cf. OHG. eitar, eittar, mod.G. eiter, OS. êtar, ON. eitr, (Sw. etter, Da. edder,) Du. eyter, etter. The original long vowel (giving ME. ōter) has been irregularly shortened in Eng., as also in other of the modern languages.]
†1. Poison, venom, esp. that of reptiles. Obs.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 112 Wiþ fleoᵹendum atre & ælcum æternum swile. c1175Lamb. Hom. 169 Atter meind mid wine. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 256 And alle þe oþer..en⁓uenymeþ þorgh his attere. c1400Destr. Troy iii. 920 And withdroghe the deire of his dere attur.
fig.c1175Lamb. Hom. 75 Þan deþliche atter þet þe alde deouel blou on Adam. c1230Ancr. R. 80 Habbeð wlatunge of þe muðe þet speoweð ut atter.
†2. Gall; fig. bitterness. Obs.
a700Epinal Gloss. 141, Corpus 297, Bile, átr. c1175Lamb. Hom. 23 A lutel ater bitteret muchele swete. c1320Cast. Loue 1150 Atter heo him dude to drinke i-meynt wt eisil. c1430Hymns to Virg. (1867) 24, I may drede at my departynge Þat it wole be attir & ille.
3. Corrupt matter, pus, from a sore, ulcer, abscess, etc. Still in Sc. and north. dial.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iv. vii. (1495) 90 Vnkynde blood and hoter. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 326/1 Of kyrnellys and botches of his face..ranne grete plente of blood and atter. 1535Coverdale Job ii. 7 And scraped of the etter off his sores with a potsherde. 1601Holland Pliny II. 422 Ears that run attyr. 1643Horn & Robotham Gate Lang. Unl. xxv. §318 A green wound..rotted into a gory venemous atter. 1864Atkinson Whitby Gloss., Atter or Atteril, the matter of a sore..The tongue is said to be covered with ‘a dry white atter,’ when furred with fever.
▪ II. † ˈatter, v. Obs.
[OE. ǽtrian, ættrian, f. prec.]
1. To poison, envenom. Also fig.
c885K. ælfred Oros. iii. ix. §18 For ᵹeǽtredum ᵹescótum. c1175Lamb. Hom. 75 Hore loking..hore smelling, heore feling was al iattret. c1230Ancr. R. 84 Oðer speche soileð..ac þeos attreð þe heorte & te earen boðe.
2. To mix with gall, embitter.
c1400Destr. Troy vi. 2286 Or all so myght aunter to atter for euer.
▪ III. atter
obsolete form of otter. |