▪ 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.
| c 1220 Hali Meid. 23 For þi is hare aturn se briht. c 1300 K. Alis. 6834 Ne saughe he never so faire atoure. c 1400 Rom. Rose 3717 Nor of robe, nor of tresour..neithir of hir riche attour. 1475 Caxton Jason 115 b, That poure creature habylled with ryall atours. |
2. Military equipment or preparation.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xvii. 717 The schipmen..pressit with that gret atour Toward the wall. 1480 Caxton 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.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xiii. 353 Bannokburne, that sa cummyrsum was..mycht nane atour it ryde. 1423 James I King's Q. iii. viii, Thaire hudis all..atoure thair eyen hang. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. iv. xix. 64 Atoure the Peychtys kyng regnand. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 9 To fair attour the flude. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 149 Loupin atower the sopha. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 85 The sunshine creeps atour the crags. |
2. Of degree, quantity, or number: Over, more than, beyond.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce ii. 368 And he hym-selff, atour the lave, Sa hard and hewy dyntis gave. Ibid. xx. 434 Nocht..atour ten. c 1475 R. Coilyear, Ane man he traistit in, maist atour all vther thing. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 139 Attour the space of ane zeare, and ane day. |
b. by and atour: over and above, in addition to.
| c 1600 in Orig. Paroch. Scot. (1851) I. 517 Three chalders of victual..by and attour the ministeris stipend. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet xii, By and attour her gentle havings. |
3. Over an obstacle, restriction, prohibition: In defiance of, in spite of.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 12 How the Pechtis crownit ane King attouir forbidding. Mod. Sc. (Jamieson) I'll do this attour ye. |
† 4. ? Over against.
| c 1375 ? Barbour St. Adrian 380 Furth come campyonis foure, & al stud Adryane atoure. |
B. adv.
1. Over and above, moreover, in addition, besides.
| c 1320 Sir Beves 2137 Atour, a seide, in is contre Icham a erl and also is he. c 1375 ? Barbour St. Marcus Prol. 1 Ȝete suld I here a-toure Spek of þe ewangelistis foure. 1558 Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Misc. Wodr. Soc. (1844) 108 Attouir, it is to be notit. 1663 in 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).
| c 1300 K. Alis. 4511 Ded buth my prynces be atour. a 1500 Lancelot 1775 And mor atour he shall Have O thing. 1725 A. Ramsay Gent. Sheph. (1844) 31 By an attour..twa quey cawfs, I'll yearly to them give. 1794 Burns Wks. 137 Bye attour, my gutcher has A hich house and a laigh ane. |
2. ? All over, everywhere.
| a 1475 R. Coilyear 469 His plaitis properlie picht attour with precious stanis. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. vi. 68 Quhy suld I dred or spayr To purches help..attour allquhair? |