1) Attic Salt. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...all in wit). The Athenians were noted for their wit and elegant turns of thought, and hence Attic salt means wit as pointed and delicately expressed as by the Athenians....
2) Attics, Attic Storey. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Attics are the rooms in the attic storey, and the attic storey generally is an extra storey made in the roof. In the Roman and Renaissance styles of architecture...
3) Attic Science. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A knowledge of Attic Greek. 1...
4) Attic Order. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...in architecture, a square column of any of the five orders. (See ORDERS.) 1...
5) Attic Faith. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Inviolable faith, the very opposite of "Punic Faith." 1...
6) Figs. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...I shan t buy my Attic figs in future, but grow them. Don t count your chickens before they are hatched. It was Xerxes who boasted that he did not intend any longer...
7) Dormer Window. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The window of an attic standing out from the slope of the roof. (O. French, dormeor=a sleeping room formerly fitted with windows of this kind.)"Thatched were the...
8) attic. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...especially a house. 2. A low wall or story above the cornice of a classical facade. From Attic story, story of a building enclosed by one decorative structure placed...
9) Lycurgus, one of the Ten Attic Orators. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Lycurgus, one of the Ten Attic Orators, c.396-c.325 B.C., one of the Ten Attic Orators of the Alexandrian canon; pupil of Isocrates. A capable and honored public...
10) Attic Boy (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...1 "Till civil-suited Morn appear, Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."Milton: Il Penseroso....
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