- (v.t.) To take, seize or lay hold of.
- (v.i.) To adhere; to be attached.
- (v.t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
- (v.t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company or ship.
- (v.i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
- (v.t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
- (n.) An attachment.
- (v.t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
- (v.t.) To bind, fasten, tie or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue or the like.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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