Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AT-TIRE', n.

1. Dress; clothes; habit; but appropriately, ornamental dress. Can a bride forget her attire? – Jer. ii.
2. The horns of a deer.
3. In botany, the generative parts of plants. Florid attire, called thrums or suits, as in the flowers of marygold or tansy, consists of two or three parts, of which the outer part is the floret. Semiform attire consists of the chives and apexes. This language is now obsolete.