Attire \At*tire"\, n.

1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.

Earth in her rich attire. --Milton.

I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. --Shak.

Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? --Jer. ii. 32.

2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.]

--Johnson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Attire \At*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attired; p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring.]

[OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; [`a] (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziar[=i], G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.]

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

Finely attired in a robe of white. --Shak.

With the linen miter shall he be attired. --Lev. xvi. 4.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)