All athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news.
Shak.
A*tilt" (&?;), adv. [Pref. a- + tilt.] 1. In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.
2. In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]
Abroach, atilt, and run
Even to the lees of honor.
Beau. & Fl.
At"i*my (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;; 'a priv. + &?; honor.] (Gr. Antiq.) Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.
-a"tion (&?;). [L. -ationem. See -tion.] A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.
A-tip"toe (&?;), adv. On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.
We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence.
F. Harrison.
||At*lan"ta (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
At*lan"tal (&?;), a. (Anat.) (a) Relating to the atlas. (b) Anterior; cephalic. Barclay.
At`lan*te"an (&?;), a. [L. Atlant&?;us.] 1. Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.