[At`tock] (4), a town and fortress in the Punjab, on the Indus where the Kabul joins it—a river beyond which no Hindu must pass; it was built by Akbar in 1581.
[Attorney-General], the name given the first law officer and legal adviser of the Crown in England and Ireland.
[Attwood, George], a mathematician, invented a machine for illustrating the law of uniformly accelerated motion, as in falling bodies (1745-1807).
[Attwood, Thomas], an eminent English musician and composer, wrote a few anthems (1767-1836).
[A`tys], a beautiful Phrygian youth, beloved by Cybele, who turned him into a pine, after she had, by her apparition at his marriage to forbid the banns, driven him mad.
[Aube] (255), a dep. in France, formed of Champagne and a small part of Burgundy, with Troyes for capital.
[Au`ber], a popular French composer of operas, born at Caen; his operas included "La Muette de Portici," "Le Domino Noir," "Fra Diavolo," &c. (1782-1871).
[Au`bert, The Abbé], a French fabulist, born at Paris (1731-1814).
[Aub`rey, John], an eminent antiquary, a friend of Anthony Wood's; inherited estates in Wilts, Hereford, and Wales, all of which he lost by lawsuits and bad management; was intimate with all the literary men of the day; left a vast number of MSS.; published one work, "Miscellanies," being a collection of popular superstitions; preserved a good deal of the gossip of the period (1624-1697).
[Aub`riot], a French statesman, born at Dijon, provost of Paris under Charles V.: built the famous Bastille; was imprisoned in it for heresy, but released by a mob; died at Dijon, 1382.