An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 30 : Fr. _atour_, attire. _Barbour._ ATOUR, ATTOURE, _prep._ 1. Over, S. _Wallace._ 2. Acros

Fr. _atour_, attire.

_Barbour._

ATOUR, ATTOURE, _prep._

1. Over, S.

_Wallace._

2. Across, S.

_Wallace._

3. Beyond, as to time; exceeding.

_Quon. Att._

4. Exceeding in number.

_Wyntown._

Fr. _a tour_, _en tour_, _au tour_, circ.u.m; or Su. G. _at_, denoting motion towards a place, and _oefwer_, over.

ATOUR, ATTOUR, _adv._

1. Moreover, _By and attour_, id. Laws, S.

_Pitscottie._

2. Out from, or at an indefinite distance from the person speaking, or the object spoken of.

_Douglas._

_To stand attour_, to keep off; _to go attour_, to remove to some distance, S. _By and attour_, _prep_. Besides, over and above, S.

_Spalding._

ATRY, ATTRIE, _adj._

1. Purulent, containing matter; applied to a sore that is cankered, S.

_R. Bruce._

2. Stern, grim, S. B.; _attern_, fierce, cruel, snarling; Gloucest.

V. ~Atir~, ~Eatir~.

_Ross._

Belg. _etterig_, full of matter; _eiter-en_, to suppurate.

ATRYS, _s. pl._ Perhaps from Fr. _atour_, a French hood.

_Watson's Coll._

ATRYST, _s._ Appointment, a.s.signation,

V. ~Tryst~.

_Dunbar._

ATTAMIE, A skeleton, S.

Abbreviated from Fr. _anatomie_.

ATTEILLE, ATTEAL, ATTILE, _s._ Apparently the wigeon; being distinguished from the _teal_.

_Acts Ja. VI._

Isl. _tialld-r_, t.u.r.dus marinus.

ATTELED, _part. pa._ Aimed.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

V. ~Ettle~

ATTEMPTAT, _s._ A wicked or injurious enterprise.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

L. B. _attemptat-io_, nefaria molitio, scelus, Gall. _attentat_; Du Cange.

ATTER-CAP, ATTIR-COP, _s._

1. A spider, S. _Attercop_, _attercob_, id. A. Bor.

_Montgomery._