ATTIRE, in botany, is used to denote the third part or division of the flower of a plant; the other two being the Empalement and the Foliation. See FLOWER. See also EMPALEMENT. This Attire is of two kinds; Semini-form, and Florid. The Semini-form Attire consists of two parts; Chives, or the Stamina; and Summets, or Apices; one upon each attire. See STAMINA and APICES. The Florid Attire is usually called Thrums, as in the flowers of marigold, tansy, etc.—These Thrums are called Suits, which consist of two, but most times of three pieces.—The outer part of the suit is the Floret, whose body is divided at the top, like a cowslip flower, into five parts or distinct leaves. See THRUM, etc. Attire, in hunting, the head or horns of a deer. See HEAD. The Attire of a stag, if perfect, consists of bur, pearls, beam, gutters, antler, sur-antler, royal, sur-royal, and croches.—Of a buck, the bur, beam, brow-antler, black-antler, advancer, palm, and spellers. See the article HUNTING.
